Vampire Game Complete Series by Leigh Kelsey

Author:Leigh Kelsey [Kelsey, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-25T22:00:00+00:00

WHATEVER IT TAKES

“Hey,” I said softly, approaching Finn in the garden. He was sat hunched over on the bench beneath the timber pagoda at the bottom, trees shivering above him. I shuddered in the crisp sea wind, that same sharp air rustling bright pink peonies, sunshine-hued chrysanthemums, the proud, many-petaled lupins, and the ivy and honeysuckle creeping up the pagoda. With the garden wild and beautiful around him, for the first time I saw him as fae.

“Sorry,” he said when I sat beside him, taking his hand in mine. His face was still fixed and hard. Furious. I’d expected tears but not this steel. I didn’t know how to comfort him when he was like this. “I just needed to get away for a second.”

“It’s fine.” I leant my shoulder against his, hoping the contact eased his pain, a least a little. “What do you think we should do? Try to find Fear Doirche before he comes to us? Use his weakness, his Mistress, to make him snap?”

“No,” Finn answered roughly, taking my chin to turn my face towards him. “Never, never make that man snap, Elara. If he lost an inch of his control, you would be dead.”

I swallowed, glancing at the trees on the edge of the garden. “I don’t know anything about faerie magic,” I said. “It’s hard to be scared of something when I don’t know what I’m supposed to be scared of.”

“You’ve seen Oisìn heal,” he said, a little reluctantly. “You’ve seen the power he has, even muted by death. Isn’t that enough to scare you?”

I paused, thinking it over. I’d seen Oisìn bring Finn back from the brink of death, felt his healing warmth wash over my own skin, mending a twisted ankle. “Nothing about him could scare me now,” I answered honestly.

Finn looked at me for a long time, searching for something in my eyes. When he glanced away, I wasn’t sure if he’d found it or not. “Don’t hurt him, Ellie. Please.”

I recoiled, my face going red as my heart twisted. “Why would I?”

“I don’t know,” he sighed. “But Oisìn can’t take another break. It would shatter him beyond all hope of repair. To be rejected by—it would ruin him.”

I stared at the garden, my face tight and warning of oncoming tears. “What about me?” I said, my voice a weak whine. “You don’t think he could ruin me so damn easily?”

I stood, my throat tightening now.

“Ellie,” Finn said as I crossed the pagoda. “Ellie, I’m sorry. Wait.”

He caught my hand, and the comfort in the touch was enough to make my bottom lip wobble. “I’m sorry,” he whispered again.

“You have no idea what it did to me when Scarlett took him. No idea,” I hissed. It rushed back, the freezing terror, that howling silence inside me, bleak and hopeless.

“Then tell me,” he said gently. He sounded sorry but something had snapped in me, a vulnerable spot poked with a red-hot iron. I didn’t want his apology. I didn’t know why I was so angry, so upset—we were safe now.

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