Prophecy Girl by Holly Roberds

Author:Holly Roberds [Roberds, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ToastPig Publishing
Published: 2019-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

There on the floor, crying with Emma, I closed my eyes, trying to block out the fear that threatened to engulf both of us. I thought I knew the hardness of a life of repentance, but this was almost more than I could bear. For a moment, I didn’t care if the Stygian claimed this world, because the thought of losing Emma brought hell on earth to me. I held her tight, never wanting to let her go.

When she pulled back, Emma realized I was still hard and reached a hand down to touch me but I stopped her.

“I can’t,” I said softly.

“Do you want me to use my mouth?” She asked, wiping her eyes.

I shook my head, my heart tired and leaden now. “No, I mean I can’t, Emma.”

She looked at me with disbelief before extracting herself from my arms and trying to get to her feet, but her legs were unsteady and it took a moment. “So what, you are just doing me a favor? Servicing me before I go to my death? Preserving my virginity for the sacrifice?”

Getting to my feet as well, I watched Emma grab her dress and angrily tug it on. “Emma, we can never be together because I’m a Chevalier.”

Officially boiling with rage, she yelled, “What does that even mean?”

Deep down I knew it was despair fueling her anger, but it still didn’t dull the sting. I lowered my voice hoping she would bring down her volume, too. “I have no soul.”

Whatever she had been about to say died on her lips. She stared at me, agape this time with shock so very different than when she had first walked in on me naked.

“You have no soul,” she repeated slowly.

“I— I should have told you before. In my last life, I committed unspeakable atrocities. The gods took my soul but have afforded me a chance at redemption in this life. They made me a Chevalier. Chevaliers must serve the Light, the mission the Order of Luxis serves, until perhaps, one day the gods would deem to grant us our souls again. So you see, we cannot be together. You deserve a man, not a soulless monster.”

One eyebrow arched higher than I’d ever seen before, and the corners of her mouth tugged down in displeasure. “Are you kidding me?” Then rolling her eyes she answered herself, “Of course not, you don’t even know how.” She repeated it again as if trying to absorb. “You have no soul.”

I looked away from her, shame burning me up. “I know I should have told you. It’s why I tried so hard to stay away from you. I don’t know when, or if, the gods will ever return my soul.”

“Bullshit.”

I reared back. “What?”

Emma’s expression had morphed from incredulity into a hard mask. “I said bullshit. You absolutely have a soul, Calan.”

“I understand this is difficult for you to hear, Emma. To find out while I protected you from monsters, I was a monster all along.”

Her eyes were dry now, and sharp with clarity as she stared up at me defiantly.

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