Retribution by Kate L. Mary

Author:Kate L. Mary [Mary, Kate L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Publisher: Twisted Press, LLC
Published: 2018-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

19

Asa

Greer said nothing when he came for me, but I knew by the look on his face that Indra had arrived. I was dragged from my cell, through the dark and empty square, and toward what I knew would lead to the worst moment of my life. My wife was here, the only woman I had ever loved, and I would watch her die. I knew it as surely as I knew I would very soon burn in the underworld for all the sins I had committed on this earth.

We reached Saffron’s house too soon. I wasn’t ready. Wasn’t prepared for the end to come, but like everything else, there was nothing I could do to stop it.

Inside, the scene was exactly the way I had imagined it would be except for one detail. Emori was present. Dag had her in his clutches, his fingers wrapped around her forearm as she struggled to break free. Hate burned in her dark eyes, which were focused on Lysander. I knew the look well, had been the recipient of it each time we met, and despite everything else, I was grateful that for once it wasn’t focused on me.

Each of Emori’s cheeks had a slash across it, going from the corner of her mouth to the top of her cheekbone. The cuts were fresh, still healing, but scabbed over, and deliberate enough that I knew something big must have happened.

Indra stood on the other side of the room, flanked by Saffron and Lysander. There was a cut on her neck, held together by what looked like the teeth of a lygan, and she was dirty. Her arms and legs were streaked in ash that had no doubt come from the remains of the Fortis village, but she was beautiful nonetheless. Her green eyes captured mine and held me in a silent trance. She didn’t need to say a word for me to know what she was thinking.

“Asa,” she said, taking a step forward.

I expected Lysander or Saffron or even one of the three Fortis men in the room to stop her, but no one did. Nor did they try to stop me as I moved forward, took her in my arms, and pulled her against me. The embrace was firm, eager, but not nearly as desperate as the kiss. I crushed my lips against Indra’s, held her to me like I thought she would be ripped away at any moment. She clung to me as well, her hands twisting in my shirt, holding on like I was the only thing keeping her alive.

When the kiss ended, I refused to let her go, but instead wrapped my arms around her tighter. “You shouldn’t have come.”

“I had to. You know I did,” she said, her words muffled by my embrace.

“I know,” I whispered against the top of her head. “I know.”

“That’s enough,” Saffron said.

Too soon, Indra was ripped from my grasp. I tried to cling to her, but it was impossible with Greer and the other Fortis man pulling me one way while Lysander dragged Indra in the opposite direction.

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