Darkly Divine: A Paranormal Enemies to Lovers Romance by C.L. Walker

Author:C.L. Walker [Walker, C.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-05T22:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Skylar

I sat in a courtyard surrounded by darkness, but I couldn’t remember how I had gotten there.

I looked down and ran my hands over the tops of my thighs and marveled at the feel of the silky red dress that hugged my body.

How pretty.

I looked up as I saw Micah stop before me.

“You’ve come.” He took a seat beside me on the bench.

I reached out and grabbed one of the braids that framed his face and gave it a playful tug. “I’m here, but I don’t know why.”

He sighed and pulled his hair from my fingers. “Because you want to be, is that really so hard for you to admit?”

“With you?” I stood up. “Because I want to be with you–”

“Yes.” He stood as well, then he picked me up abruptly and ran.

As he carried me through the trees, I closed my eyes and enjoyed the warmth of his bare chest against my cheek and listened to the beating of his heart.

When we came to a stop minutes later, I opened my eyes and observed my surroundings. We were still in the forest, it was lit only by fireflies that danced in the cold air, and the vegetation was thick and dripping with dew.

He laid me down in the damp dirt and I let him do so without protest.

But when he grabbed a stick and began to draw a circle around my body, I grew weary.

“What are you doing?” I demanded but he didn’t answer.

When I tried to move I couldn’t. My body was stuck in place and I could only move my eyes and my mouth to speak.

I began to cry when he chanted something quietly that I couldn’t make out.

“Micah,” I pleaded, “please stop… you’re scaring me.”

He looked at me then and tipped his head to the side as a crooked smile grew across his face and revealed his sharp white teeth. “I told you that you should fear me,” he said, before he was consumed with laughter.

“No, I don’t want to die! You said you wouldn’t hurt me!”

I woke up covered in sweat expecting to feel dirt beneath my palms as Micah peered down at me with murder in his eyes but thankfully it had been a dream.

My alarm was sounding off, so I smacked it and silenced the deafening sound that had come too soon. Even though I had passed out as soon as my head hit the pillow, I still hadn’t gotten enough sleep, especially not after all that had happened.

Jack is dead.

I got up and stepped out of my room hesitantly as I surveyed the rest of the trailer and listened for the sound of Jack’s voice. I was nervous for no reason because it wasn’t as if he could arise from the watery depths of the lake and come for me.

I shook myself even though it wasn’t entirely unreasonable. If Micah was cursed, drank blood for sustenance and could alter aspects of his appearance at will to become something dark, stronger, and violent, then anything was possible.

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