Luminary by Mindy Hayes

Author:Mindy Hayes [Hayes, Mindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-02T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

SAKARI

I’d be able to enjoy the day if I knew Calliope wasn’t so brokenhearted. Our connection was worse than I anticipated. Nothing could have prepared me for feeling her emotions as powerful as they were. I’d always known she was passionate, but this brought passion to a whole other level. I didn’t know how I wasn’t bursting. If I were an explosive, our emotions would demolish the entire kingdom of Faylinn. We’d be able to do it without the help of my father.

“Would you like to dance?” I heard Cameron ask Sarai.

Oh, no you don’t. Before I could intervene, Calliope latched onto my arm and I felt her not so subtle disapproval of my intentions.

Her widened green eyes warned me to step back.

“Calliope,” I implored.

“She’ll be fine, Sakari. If you’re worried about Cameron being a gentleman, you have nothing to worry about. We’ve been best friends since we were eleven. I trust him. For goodness sake, it took him over seven years before he even kissed me. I’m pretty sure she’s fine. If he’s even the smallest bit disrespectful, I’ll dismember him myself.”

I exhaled and watched them walk away. It was happening already. Sarai was smitten. He leaned down, saying something in her ear and she giggled before looking at the ground blushingly.

Of all the luck. The first boy my baby sister met after her confinement was a human. “He kissed you?” The thought finally processed.

Calliope chuckled. “Really? That’s all you have to say?”

“Well, you’re my wife now. I have the right to be jealous. Do I not?”

Calliope’s face fell and blinked into the crowd. “Because we’re married you should have nothing to be jealous of. You’re stuck with me now.”

Her words contradicted everything she was feeling. I didn’t own her heart. No matter how much she tried to conceal that from me, it was impossible. Forever I would have to carry that burden. The burden of knowing I stole her, but not her heart.

“Being stuck with you is my favorite place to be,” I said quietly.

She peered up at me, but I couldn’t look her in the eyes. I kept my watchful gaze on the uncomfortable mingling kingdoms around us. I couldn’t stay in one place any longer. Turning to walk, I nodded my head so she would come with. I offered my elbow, and she accepted. For the first time, I felt like she was accepting me.

As we strolled around the gathering, Declan and Allura approached us. Next to me I felt Calliope beam and relax at the sight of them. Will she ever feel this way when she sees me?

“Hey, Queeny.”

“Allura.” Calliope stepped forward and hugged her. They stood that way, never saying a word, but holding tightly to one another. Calliope’s emotions transformed from calmness to regret and sadness in a matter of moments. She experienced every emotion so intensely it was difficult not to define them.

When they pulled away, tears glistened in their eyes, but they still said nothing. Every word expressed through their eyes.

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