The Forsaken Rune (Royal Reaper Academy Series Book 2) by G. Bailey

Author:G. Bailey [Bailey, G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The hot shower is a blessing as I rest underneath it, my forehead pressed against the tiles as I try to forget everything that happened today except for the fact Dagthoch is gone, dead, and I can go back to Earth any time I want.

“I heard Seth pulled you out of the Thames after you nearly killed them all.” Finn’s voice makes me jump, and I glance around the shower curtain, seeing him standing at the door. Thankfully, the shower curtain hides me completely, but he is still in here. “You could have waited outside the bathroom to avoid scaring me.”

“Did you or did you not almost fucking kill yourself again today, Daesyn?”

His demand makes me shiver.

“I can’t die, remember?” I reply, going back into the shower. I flip the switch to turn the shower off. “And close your eyes. I’m coming out.”

I peek around the shower curtain to see his eyes are shut before stepping out and grabbing a towel. I wrap it around myself as he starts talking. “Being immortal as you are is a curse, Daesyn. You could have been trapped at the bottom of the river, dying over and over again for a long time. Do you want that?”

“You can open your eyes now,” I say, watching as he does. His eyes fall on me with so much anger and frustration.

He steps forward, leaving no space between us, and stares down at me. “I don’t want to see you in pain.”

“I thought you made it pretty clear there can be nothing between us, Finn,” I respond. Despite my whole being soaking wet, my mouth feels dry as I look up at him, wanting a reply I know I can’t get. We both can’t say it. The unspoken thing that is building between us since we kissed. Hell, since we met. “If I could exchange my immortality for making my own choices in life, I would in a heartbeat. But I am my mother’s only son, and she will not let me go. Anyone in her way, anyone she thinks threatens to take me away from her, she will kill. And even you, cursed as you are, would be destroyed by the gods.”

I lift my hand and cup the side of his face, and he closes his eyes, slightly leaning into my hand. “I wish things were different.”

“Wishing to gods will not help us, Daesyn. We must walk away.”

“Then leave,” I reply.

“I’m trying. I try every fucking day, and it doesn’t work,” he breathes out the words, opening his eyes. “I keep coming back to you. I keep thinking about you.”

I lean up on my tiptoes and kiss him, pouring everything I want to say to him into each kiss against his soft lips. He doesn’t kiss me back for a second, and I pull away, only for him to grab my hips and pull me back to him, kissing me with so much passion I can feel it all over my body.

“Everything alright in there?” Poppy shouts through, knocking on the door a few times.

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