Prophecy: Caelestis & Aurorea by Felicity Heaton

Author:Felicity Heaton [Heaton, Felicity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Gothic, Paranormal, Vampires
Amazon: B0035LDNZK
Published: 2012-07-02T13:10:18+00:00

Chapter 16

Valentine growled when he turned the door handle, opened it and strode into the house.

“Mathias!” he called out and listened for any sign of his friend. He wasn’t holding out hope that he would still be alive. He knew who had come for him and he knew why.

Unable to find him, Kalinor had decided to exact his vengeance on someone he valued instead. Mathias had paid the price for his escape. His brows knit tight when he thought about it and his fingers curled into trembling fists. It wasn’t fair. It should have been him that had been murdered, not his friend.

He ground his teeth at the sound of Prophecy’s calls. She was shouting Mathias’ name, but occasionally she would call out the name of the new lord of Tenebrae. During their journey, she had explained who Venturi was and that he had worked with her for a while. He clenched his jaw when he thought about the fact that this man had sworn to protect her. Protect her? She already had a protector and that was himself.

Turning the corner, he walked into the lounge where most of Mathias’ books were stored. His eyes scanned over the dishevelled furniture and broken objects, the sight of it turning his stomach and filling him with dread. The chairs beside the fire were turned over and half of the books on the shelves had been thrown onto the floor. He stopped dead when he saw Mathias’ glasses on the floor.

His heart sank.

It was true then. Mathias was gone.

Bending over, he picked them up and stared at them. His fingers shook when he ran them over the broken glass in the frames and he kept his jaw tensed to steel himself against the emotions sweeping through him. Sorrow overwhelmed his anger at himself but it didn’t abate it. This was his fault and he was going to be the one to avenge his friend’s death. He wrapped his fingers around the glasses and blinked back the tears as they filled his eyes.

Mathias was gone.

The one person who had always been there for him, who had always offered him shelter during his journeys and was always happy to spend countless hours listening to the tales of his adventures, was gone and he wasn’t coming back. A thousand years of living had come to an end because of him.

He was never going to see his friend again.

There was never going to be another day passed in conversation with him about books and languages, about all the madness that was eating away at the world, or about the missions that he’d completed.

There was never going to be another day where he could step foot in this house and not feel the pain of his loss.

What had he done?

He brushed away the tear that slipped onto his cheek and felt mortified when he realised that he was crushing Mathias’ already broken glasses. He uncurled his fist and idly straightened the twisted metal, using the task to keep his mind off what had happened and why.

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