The Reaper and the Rose by Miller Nita

Author:Miller, Nita
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Guis

I wanted to kiss her.

​I wanted to do what Xavier had the courage to do, but as I sat in the corner of her room watching her as she slept, I knew giving in to my own desires was not a good idea.

I fought sleep as the night grew older, with every passing second the weight of my eyes became more unbearable. The now foreign act reminded me that in her presence I could almost be human. We didn't need sleep, we could go without it and because of that I very rarely felt the sting of it, but because of her I needed it.

I could not explain why, or how she had this effect on me, but it made me wonder if it did the same for others within the walls. If this was why Xavier has disappeared at night since Artimis’ arrival. A strange factor, but one in the same.

We did not sleep like we once did, before we slept like her; for as long as we could so our bodies could recharge. Now, we only slept for a few hours to waste time as we waited for the next day to come, we did not need sleep nor did we need food but we wanted to keep the same routine we had grown accustomed to while we were still alive. Small luxuries we did not want to part with.

She had drifted off into her own world in the middle of our conversation. I had spent the last hours of the day trying to convince her that even though her presence had sealed our fate, it was not her fault. Xavier was the one to blame, he knew what he was doing and still thought it was a good idea, he did not care what happened as long as he had her to himself. But now thanks to her, she did not solely belong to him, at least not until the bond snapped into place.

I could feel her fears as the conversation came to a close. Tonight her dreams would not be sweet but full of anger and death, a fate I did not want to put on her when she was already dealing with so much.

I had to be the one to guard her, to help her through whatever mess she had been pulled from without warning, without grieving. Since she arrived she has had too much thrown in her lap, so much that the weight of it all had to be crushing every bit of happiness from her heart. I was the one willing to help her find peace while Xavier was the one trying to steal it away the moment she began to feel it.

That was just the kind of man he was, he blamed me for everything that has happened, everything before we were here, when in reality he was the reason I had done what I did. I did everything for him, to make him proud, to fit in with the crowd he had chosen to stand with.

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