Lightning Strikes Twice (Unweaving Chronicles Book 2) by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K. L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pronoun
Published: 2017-04-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen: Only a Dream

RUSK SAT UP SO quickly that I startled. What was he going to say about that? I chewed at my bottom lip, but he was just shaking his head slowly, his mouth twisting bitterly.

“Don’t look at me like that! It’s not like I asked him to propose marriage.”

“Or kiss you?”

“What was I supposed to do?”

“Shove him! Tell him to forget about it.” He was already raising his voice and we hadn’t even begun to fight.

I stood up and walked to the other side of the room, as far as the tether would reach. I crossed my arms protectively over my chest.

“I can’t afford to alienate him. He has the antidote!”

“So, you’re going to marry him so you can get it? Is that what it takes to earn your loyalty? Maybe I should buy some poison from a street vendor.” He launched himself out of the bed, pacing back and forth across the small room.

“With what money? We can’t even function in this world without Kjexx. We don’t have any money or assets of our own. If it weren’t for you I never would have been poisoned at all. We wouldn’t even be here with Kjexx, we would have ridden here on Graxx and left him behind!” Why did I have to be logical one? None of this was my fault!

“You can use your lightings to get what we need.”

I scoffed. “Yes, Rusk. I’ll just go around zapping anyone who doesn’t give me what I want. Like Catane. I bet we could oppress these people twice as well as he can.”

He sighed. “That’s not what I meant.”

I didn’t want to hear it. “You’re just jealous and you’re taking it out on me.”

“Because what he said was right, Tylira.” He stopped, his shoulders slumping forward in defeat. I hadn’t seen such a bitter curl in his lip since he told me about the day he killed my mother. “If we had met in any other circumstance you would have picked him. He’s everything that you love, and I’m not. I feel the weight of duty on me every day and I can’t just be carefree about it like he can.”

“It’s not the same thing.”

“I can’t go around proposing marriage.”

“Can’t you?” Why did he always see me as a duty and a burden? Maybe Kjexx had a point. Maybe we were only together because of that tether. Maybe he would never have chosen me if he’d had options.

He sighed, running a hand over his head. “There’s a time for a man to make plans for the future, and it’s not when he has nothing — when his whole future is in uncertain.”

“You’ll never get anything in life, Rusk, if you don’t ask for it. If you don’t chase after it with everything you have.”

“Well that’s your problem, Tylira. You chase and chase like a dog chasing a rabbit, but you have no thought for the future beyond a few days from now. What do you want when this is done? Who do you want to be? You can’t be a princess running from her fate forever.

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