Edge of the Darkness (Hell on Earth Book 4) by Brenda K. Davies

Author:Brenda K. Davies [Davies, Brenda K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gilmor-Cox Publishing
Published: 2020-09-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Bale

When Wrath returned to the room, the sun was beginning to turn the sky from gray to pink. After he left last night, I tried to ease my endless sexual frustration on my own, but I only became more frustrated when my hand didn’t relieve me.

I dozed, but I couldn’t sleep when I didn’t know where he was or if he was okay. I found my gaze often traveling to the bloodstained wall. I was driving us both toward madness, but I was torn between him and my king. Torn between everything I’d always believed and my Chosen.

I’d contemplated going after him but refrained. If I went after him, I would give myself to him.

By the time the sun started to rise, I was ready to kill him, and me, to end this torment. I suspected he felt the same way as he stared at me with a mask of indifference on his face. However, his steely eyes told a different story. Seething with resentment, those eyes followed my every move as I pushed myself up from the floor and trudged over to the window.

At least I felt somewhat in control of myself again. An underlying hunger for him still thrummed through my veins, but I wasn’t worried that I’d jump him at any second.

The wraiths were gone, and the sun was beginning to turn everything into a blindingly bright, death-filled landscape again. When I turned back to Wrath, he stared at me for a minute before walking out of the room. I followed him back to the main entrance and outside.

We spent the day exploring the golden caves with their myriad of frozen demons, but neither of us spoke. There were many times I started to talk and stopped myself. What could I say?

I’d said it all last night, and though a part of me liked him, I couldn’t change the truth. We were enemies.

We were almost to the end of a cave when he stopped suddenly. I took a couple more steps before he seized my wrist and pulled me to a stop. I almost jerked my arm away, but the subtle increase of pressure from his fingers and the look on his face stopped me.

“Do you feel that?” he asked.

The only thing I felt was the electric thrill that came from having his skin against mine. Again, I considered jerking my arm away, but he wasn’t looking at me. His gaze was riveted on the end of the cave, only fifty feet away.

And then I felt a subtle vibration in the ground beneath my feet. I looked down as if that would provide the answer before a jolt of hope shot through me. Was it Shax? He could move the earth; had they found us?

Or was it something else?

Dread rose in my stomach, but it couldn’t quite replace my hope. I refused to believe none of my friends had made it out of the forest, and if they survived the calamuts and nuckals, they were looking for me.

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