Witchbound: Book Two by Sable Cross

Author:Sable Cross [Cross, Sable]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Eighteen

Eris

Her plea, fervent and unguarded, strikes a chord deep within me. Can such purity lie beneath the deception I fear? My heart, a relic long thought numb, flutters with a feeling I can scarcely name—hope. It is fragile, this newfound sensation, like the first bloom resisting a harsh winter frost. But it exists, insistent and undeniable, coaxing warmth into my cold veins.

I close the distance between us, one tentative step at a time. The air in the library seems to grow dense with the gravity of my decision. Each footfall is a testament to the shift within me—a queen, poised on the precipice of the unknown.

"Strawberry," I murmur, my voice no longer edged with the frost of my title but laced with the vulnerability of a woman adrift. "I am darkness incarnate, a creature of night. And yet, here you stand before me, a beacon that dares to shine."

I'm closer now, close enough to see the pulse fluttering at the base of her throat, a tiny bird trapped in the cage of her flesh. "My existence has been a tapestry woven from shadows and control. To feel... it is a risk I have long avoided."

The words escape me, raw and unfiltered, revealing the disarray of my soul. "Fear has been my constant companion, yet here I am, teetering on the edge of something that terrifies me more than any foe I've faced. Because what if it's all an illusion?"

Her gaze holds mine, steadfast and unwavering. I search those verdant depths for deceit, for the machinations of magic, but find none. Only a reflection of what could be—of what I desperately want to be true.

"I do not know if these feelings that stir within me are born of your spells or some cruel trick of fate," I confess, the admission tearing at my pride. "But despite everything, I am willing to discover the truth. To take the leap into the unknown and see where this connection, this dangerous desire, leads us."

Standing there, surrounded by the ancient tomes and whispered secrets of the library, something fundamental shifts. The world tilts on its axis, reorienting itself around the possibility of 'us'. And as I face Strawberry, no longer as a vampire queen to her subject, but as one lost soul to another, I realize I am ready to embrace the risk—for her, for me, for the chance at a love that defies the ages.

The silence stretches between us, a chasm bridged only by the tempest of emotions raging in our eyes. Strawberry's hand, slight and unsteady, rises from the shadows of the dimly lit library. The air shivers with the aura of her magic, a testament to her raw power as a witch, a power I've come to both respect and fear.

And then her fingers graze my cheek, so gently it's as if she's touching something sacred. A tremble courses through me, an electric surge that defies the cold stillness of my undead heart. It's as though her warmth seeks to revive something long forgotten within my chest, something fiercely alive.

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