Nero Awakening by Keary Taylor

Author:Keary Taylor [Taylor, Keary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Keary Taylor Book, INC
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Nova.”

I take in a quick breath, startled at the voice.

“Nova, wake up!”

Hands grip my upper arms, shaking me, and with a gasping breath, my eyes fly open.

The ceiling above me is dim. The air is cooler than it was just a moment ago, and it’s quiet. So quiet.

And there are no lips on mine. No hands cradling either side of my neck. There is no crown on my head, no beautiful dress filling the space.

Valen is not here.

“No,” I say. The word cracks out of me, fracturing almost instantly. “No, no. Not again. No!”

Tears instantly well in my eyes and I roll to my side, curling into the fetal position, trying to keep myself from falling apart as reality hits me that I did not just marry Valen, that we are not on the precipice of our life together.

A sob breaks out of me and I cover my face with my hands, curling smaller and smaller.

“Nova?” a voice asks, hesitant now, instead of demanding. “What…what is going on?”

I know that voice, and it’s not one that should be here. It should be somewhere else, millions of leagues away.

Not here, on Salypso, with Zara leaping down my throat.

“Nova,” she says, and I feel her touch my arm.

“Get off of me!” I scream, whipping my arm away from her. I sit up, scrambling back from her. My back smacks against a wall, startling me, rocking me back into the present. I breathe hard and fast, and finally, the dream-vision crumbles, and I begin to see the reality that surrounds me.

Zara stands in front of me, looking at me with furrowed brows, and concerned but angry eyes. Kyril is on the other side of the room looking extremely confused and concerned.

“No,” I say once more, small and quiet. Two tears slip down my face. I squeeze my eyes closed, shaking my head as I tuck my knees into my chest and rest my forehead on them.

This is going to kill me. Seeing these possible futures, feeling, living them. Only to wake, over and over again to find none of it was real.

None of it is possible.

It’s going to break me. It’s going to shatter me.

It’s going to kill me.

“What did you dream of, Nova?” a kind voice asks. Kyril.

I shake my head. I can’t tell them. I can never tell anyone. Except maybe Evander.

If I tell them, they will know. They will know how tempted I am to do whatever it takes to make our future a reality. They will know I’m not the good person I wish I were.

They would never look at me the same.

“You have to slow down, Nova,” Zara’s voice reaches my ears, her tone firm and slightly angry, and a little questioning. “If you don’t, you’re going to kill yourself. You might hurt others. What you just did-”

“What I just did was nothing.” My head snaps up as anger floods through me. I jump to my feet, snapping back into the moment. “What I did was something I should have been able to do a long time ago.

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