Queen of Souls and Sorrow by Piper Easton

Author:Piper Easton [Easton, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pierced Soul Publishing

Chapter Twenty-One

Thieran is distracted today, staring into the distance, tapping his fingers against the table’s edge. I dislike getting a taste of my own aloofness, although I’m not entirely sure that’s what this is. Something seems to have been bothering him since yesterday, when he watched my practice session with Kaia.

I don’t know how I called the rain or how I knew I could do it. Only that I did. Kaia said it was instinct. She’s been talking about using mine since we started, constantly pushing me to stop thinking and just do what comes naturally.

But it’s been difficult to let go enough to reach for what is inside of me without thinking through every step first. At least not until I needed to put out that unchecked fire yesterday. Reaching up to the sky and drawing down the rain was as second nature to me as breathing.

And I can’t tell if Thieran’s mood last night and his distracted silence this morning are cause for worry. Did he recognize something in me he didn’t wish to see? The idea that he may be reconsidering this thing between us, reconsidering me and my place here in the Shadow Realm, grips my heart and squeezes painfully.

“Thieran,” I say, drawing his gaze, my voice thick with worry. “I wish you would tell me what’s bothering you.”

His expression softens, and he crosses the room, reaching down to pull me from my seat. He frames my face in his large hands and kisses me gently on the forehead.

“It’s nothing, little one.”

“It doesn’t seem like nothing.”

I wrap my fingers loosely around his wrists, holding him in place. I want to be angry over his reaction to the way I used my powers. But I cannot reach my anger beneath the fear that someone else I love might reject me for something far beyond my control.

I want to yell at him, remind him he is supposed to love me for exactly who I am, the person—the goddess—he keeps pushing me to discover.

But all that makes it past my lips is, “I won’t call the rain again.”

He frowns, then his brow quickly smooths, and he gathers me up in his arms, wrapping them tight around my shoulders and pressing his cheek against the crown of my head.

“It’s not that. Never that. Don’t apologize to me or anyone else for who you are and what you can do.”

I sag against him with relief, gripping the back of his robes to keep my fingers from trembling. I don’t need his approval. I don’t. But his words dissipate the pressure in my chest and slow the rapid beat of my heart.

“If not that, then what? You haven’t been yourself since yesterday. You’ve been…distant.”

He takes a deep breath, squeezing me tighter before releasing me and taking a step back. Reaching up to tuck a stray strand of hair behind my ear, he draws his finger down the length of my jaw and tips my chin up until our eyes meet.

“You are perfect to me.

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