Sheer Cupidity: A Standalone Cupidity Romance (Heart Hassle Book 5) by Raven Kennedy

Author:Raven Kennedy [Kennedy, Raven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

BELREN

I couldn’t touch her.

I was so sure that it would happen again—whatever it exactly is. When my hand touched her leg, it was like a memory. A manifestation of life. I was so close to becoming what I used to be, I could almost taste it. There’s something about her that makes me feel alive. And for a damn ghost, that feeling is dangerously addictive.

What is it about her?

I may not taste life, but I can taste the bitter disappointment that I wasn’t able to touch her again.

My hand went through hers. I felt absolutely nothing.

With a dark scowl, I stalk up the street, barely sparing a glance at the fae I pass by. This island is nothing special. Just another metropolis stuffed into a stone city. I walk off the road, past the storied homes and locked shops, drawn toward the outcropping of bedrock stacked above a grassy knoll.

The lined rock formation hitches up like a nature-made fence, and when I get past it, I see exactly why I was drawn in this direction. A fae burial site lies just ahead, with a few empty pyres erected, making up three points of a triangle. In the center, a massive slab of gray rock stands as high as four fae, one on top of the other.

As I get closer, I see that names of the dead have been engraved into the rock, of all the fae who must’ve died and were burned and then buried here, their smoke released to the skies and their ashes sunk into the ground.

Of course I’m drawn to another deathplace, even if it’s not mine. Even from here, I can feel exactly where my own deathplace is. I could return to it with my eyes closed, because it still calls to me.

I stop in front of the engraved stone, eyes skimming over the chiseled letters. With as many names as there are on that rock, there’s surprisingly very few ghosts hovering around. As I walk past them, not one of them looks in my direction. “Nice night for haunting, isn’t it?” I ask a male that floats by.

He doesn’t answer, though I do notice that his form seems more faded than mine. Actually, now that I’m really paying attention, all of the ghosts are duller and dimmer than I am. I practically glow in comparison. I can’t help but think that it has something to do with Lex.

Truly, I thought tonight I was going to be able to do more than simply touch her hand. Turns out, I couldn’t even do that.

The way she sat on the bed, her white nightgown luminous in the night, made her look like an angel rather than a cupid. Her eyes were so wide with timid nervousness, the race of her pulse thrumming along her neck...yet she swayed toward me and not away. I don’t even think she realized that she did it. Or that her gaze kept flicking down to my lips, as if that’s where she truly wanted us to touch.

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