SanClare Black (The Prince of Sorrows) by Jenna Waterford

Author:Jenna Waterford [Waterford, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-27T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Flannery Llorka watched Jarlyth as he packed, her face impassive. She’d already packed and sent her bags ahead to her ship. For Tristella, she’d once more dressed in her Templar journeyman’s uniform—a level he himself had never reached.

Almost... A wave of shame and guilt washed over him at the memory of how hard he’d resisted his destiny, how much he’d resented its usurpation of his own dreams.

Vail had not Spoken to him since the night of Nylan’s birth. Maybe she believed she no longer needed to prod him after he’d lost his heart to the infant prince. Maybe she’s too horrified by my failure.

“Promise me you’ll come back,” Flannery said. They were not going together this time. She was sailing for home. He wasn’t.

He flipped his case closed with a loud thump then turned, a false smile pasted on his lips. He wanted to feign good cheer. He wanted to find some way to calm his friend’s fears. But she knew him too well, and she probably suspected what he was doing. At least she isn’t trying to stop me.

“Let me go with you, Jary.” She’d asked before, but when he’d said no, she’d stopped. Now, she couldn’t prevent herself from trying one last time. “You shouldn’t go alone.”

“You can’t. Your vow—it’s worse than treason to break a Templar vow. “

“Please, Jary.” Flannery reached her hand out, not quite touching his arm.

He almost wished she would touch him. He would have liked to have known what she was thinking. His Sensitivity had never been very strong nor had it needed to be. A touch made things clear.

Nylan would just know. Dear Vail, protect him. He must be suffering so much, and I just keep failing him.

“I can’t let you, Flan.” He turned to look into her expressive eyes. “I can’t. I have to do this alone.” She nodded stiffly and took a small step backwards, away from him.

She’s in love with me, I think. A touch would have told him if it were true, but that would also have been unfair.

Though she’d recently turned sixteen, he still remembered the small girl she’d been on that long-ago night of Nylan’s birth. It was hard to forget that and see her as a grown woman, no matter how strong and smart and practical she’d become.

“I wish you’d let me help you,” she whispered.

“You have helped. Far more than you know.” He smiled at her, touched by her devotion, and in that moment, the dangers he faced all rose up before him.

What if I never make it back? What if I fail? What if this is all the time we have? He didn’t think of her as anything but a friend, an ally, a pretty young woman who would one day be amazing beyond anything he could ever hope to deserve.

But she loved him, and he was frightened.

The distance between them vanished, and as their lips met, all of her emotions flowed into him with a clarity and sweetness he hadn’t expected. He knew then that he should never have touched her.

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