Savage Reign by Melody Locklear

Author:Melody Locklear [Locklear, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781707234530
Published: 2019-12-01T22:00:00+00:00

—CHAPTER TWENTY SIX—

AMARA

FIRE

12 YEARS AGO

For the moment the house is silent. Nothing to be heard, but the sound of my feet creeping across Keenan’s creaky floorboards. When I reach the spot where he’s hiding he grabs hold of my wrist and tugs me down next to him.

“Keenan,” I cry out. “You scared me.”

“Sorry, Mara.” Keenan says. His bright blue eyes are the only thing I can see in the dark.

A scream rips out of me when another crash of thunder rumbles through the house, sending me deeper into Keenan’s arms.

“Hey, it’s okay.” Keenan’s hand brushes back my wayward bronze curls. “It’s just thunder.”

“I don’t like it, Keenan. Make it stop.” I cry, twisting my tiny arms around his neck.

“It’ll stop soon, I promise.”

“Keenan?”

“Yeah, Mara?”

“Do you ever feel like the world could just fall apart at any moment?” I ask him. “Like it’ll break?”

His hand moves over my back and I think he’s thinking about my question. “Sometimes.”

“I don’t want it to break.”

“Look at me.” He pulls me back far enough so we’re face to face. Then he pauses and his eyes fall on mine. “Do you remember last year in school when they taught us about the big triangle-looking buildings they had in the old world?”

“The pyramids?”

“Yeah. Remember how they said they were strong and solid and could withstand anything?”

“I remember.”

“Well, the world may break. I don’t know, but I do know you and me, we’re like the pyramids. Solid. We’ll never break, okay? We’re solid, like a pyramid.”

“Solid, like a pyramid.”

“Exactly.”

Keenan is so close I can feel his breath on my lips. I wonder what it would feel like to have his lips touch mine. His blue eyes widen when I try it. I press my lips to his and it’s cold…and wet, yet oddly makes me feel warm. Then I throw my arms around his neck once more. “I love you, Keenan.”

He’s quiet for a long time. Then finally he says, “I love you too, Mara.”

Every time I wake up Keenan is either lying in my bed with me or he’s asleep in a chair beside me. This morning he’s in the chair. His hand slips, making his head fall forward. He startles himself awake. Blue eyes flash up at me when he hears me laughing.

My laugh seems to bring a smile to his face. “Something funny?” he asks in playful challenge. I bite my lip, fighting another laugh. “I have not heard that laugh in quite a while.”

“Haven’t had much cause for it.” I say softly.

He moves from the chair to my bedside, brushing a strand of hair away from my eye. “How are you feeling, love?”

“I’m so cold, Keenan. Has Bastian found a fire user yet?” I ask desperately. When I feel again how warm he is I tug him down into the bed with me. I have no less than five blankets piled on top of me, but it’s only his skin on mine that brings me any warmth.

Keenan curls his fingers around mine, tugging gently, kissing my cold knuckles.

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