Kissed by Death: Trueborn Heirs Series Book 3 (The Trueborn Heirs) by Nyna Queen

Author:Nyna Queen [Queen, Nyna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Levire
Published: 2021-08-20T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

ALEX’S fingers slid off the doorframe as she slowly approached Darken in the half-dark of the workroom, her thin robe flaring softly behind her in the light draft.

Darken had dropped into a chair and was hunched over a small table with his head buried in his hands and his shoulders shaking in silent agony. Through her sensory threads, Alex could feel his pain. It pulsed out of him in wave after wave of heart-rending anguish, rippling over her skin like invisible flames. It was a pain so raw and deep that she wanted to double over and whimper like a child.

Her bare feet came to a stop beside his chair. She hesitated, not sure how he would react to someone invading his grief. Not sure if he would want her there with him right now.

Sometimes you only realize you need something the moment it is given to you. Rachel’s never-failing wisdom. All her life, Alex had pretended that she could face everything alone and that she needed no support from others, but the truth was, if their roles were reversed right now, of all people in the world, she would want Darken to be with her. Just to be with her.

She reached out and gingerly touched his arm. “Darken…”

He raised his head. The look of pure agony on his face almost tore her heart in two.

“Alex.” Her name came out in a hoarse whisper, a desperate plea in the brittle silence around them. “Alex.”

She bridged the small distance between them and he pressed his face against her stomach, his arms winding around her waist, clutching her so tightly she could barely breathe. Alex’s fingers fisted in his hair, getting tangled in the silky raven strands.

“I’m so sorry,” she whispered, her own throat thick and tight with pain. “I’m so, so sorry.”

Her head pounded and her mouth was so dry even breathing hurt. Belaris—dead? Her brain simply refused to process it. The last time she’d seen him, he was so full of life, brimming with mischief and jokes, ready to take on the world with nothing but arrogance and charm. And now he was gone. Just like that. A star that had been burned out of the night sky, leaving behind nothing but a vast, expanding darkness.

There were no words to make this right again, nothing she could say that would fill the raging emptiness of loss inside him or make the past few minutes unhappen, so she simply held him, and hoped that it was enough.

After several minutes, Darken leaned back.

Alex blinked, completely taken aback by the sudden change of expression on his face. Instead of the pain that had raged there moments ago, it showed nothing but icy calmness, glazed with a hint of chilled red fury. A cold mask carved from gold and marble. As if there was an off-switch to his feelings, and he’d just pressed it.

His dark, cavernous eyes found hers and she could barely suppress a shudder. A dangerous red glow smoldered at their vast bottoms, waiting for the merest mental gust of wind to flare up.

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