The Moirai by Ali Winters

Author:Ali Winters [Winters, Ali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ali Winters

EIGHTEEN

NIVIAN

NIVIAN TUCKED THE eye under the collar of her shirt and descended the stairs to the main hall. She kept her pace steady, avoiding eye contact with the others until she made it outside the gates. The weight of accusing eyes seemed to drill into her back. Though she knew it was only her imagination.

Still, she paused and scanned the area, but didn’t see another Reaper anywhere. Paranoia and guilt snaked its way around her spine, slithering up until it wrapped around her throat.

She threw her hood over her head and transported to inside her apartment.

Heart still beating fast, she leaned against the door and took several deep breaths. Nivian twisted her fingers, the magnitude of what she’d done, what she still intended on doing, hit her hard.

What if she didn’t return? Would Caspian blame her for everything? So much remained unsaid between them. And what of everyone else, the other Reapers, her friends… the world? She couldn’t leave things how they stood now.

Nivian pushed away from the door and pulled a notepad from her nightstand and sat down on the bed, wishing she’d taken the time to move the chairs and island table from her old apartment to this one. Though, it hardly mattered anymore. She pushed that thought away and focused on her letter to Caspian.

She chewed on the end of the pen, thinking of what to write. There was more to say than she could adequately put in a letter. Too much that relied on how he would respond.

Just the start of the conversation they would need to have then. She had to believe they would talk again, had to believe she would come back with Kain.

She put pen to paper. Nivian wanted to tell him how she was sorry for what she was about to do and hoped that one day he’d find it in him to forgive her, then asked him to give her a few days before he tried the ceremony with Holter.

She was about to fold the letter up, but something made her hesitate. While she didn’t plan on being gone any longer than that, there was the possibility that something would delay her.

Crossing out the last sentence she wrote in three months. It seemed excessive, but if he could give her that time, or whatever it took for her to return, then Holter would be safe. She would understand if he couldn’t, but if he could believe in her one last time, she wouldn’t let him down. It wasn’t an option she was willing to consider.

Then, on a whim, she made a suggestion she had no right to offer.

Satisfied, she folded the letter and stood. She suddenly felt the urge to hurry to keep from backing out. Many things had scared her, including the threat to her own existence.

But this was something else entirely.

This was about more than her. She repeated that thought over and over in her mind.

She picked up the stuffed bear Kain had given her and hugged it to her chest, then gave their place one last look, committing it to memory.

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