To Bleed A Kingdom by Ella Dawes

Author:Ella Dawes [Dawes, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gilded Roots
Published: 2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Lena

“I’m not interrupting that,” Kace hisses. “One of you do it. Lena’s much nicer than Darius.”

Tristan snorts. “You need to spend more time with her if you think she’s nice.”

Please tell me I'm wrong.

Feeling the weight of their knowing stares, I groan, burying my face into the crook of Darius' neck to the sound of his rumbling chuckle, to the comforting feel of him threading his fingers through my hair to scratch at my scalp.

Griffin sighs. “Go tell him, Kace.”

“But,” Kace sputters, “he’ll gut me!”

“Probably,” Griffin replies. “But I'm willing to take the chance.”

“Oh! That's hurtful,” Kace grumbles sourly.

“Stop bitching already,” Amara groans. “I'll go.”

A sigh of relief choruses within the trees.

“Thank you for your sacrifice!” Kace calls cheerily.

“Cowards,” Amara grumbles.

Hearing the crunch of leaves, I turn my head to the side and find a smiling Amara waving at us. “Hi…uh… sorry to interrupt. It looks like you’re both really enjoying yourself. But unless you plan on fucking for all to see in broad daylight, you might want to cool it down a bit.” Amara fixates her gaze solely on Darius. “And Darius? There's someone named Lennox here to see you.”

Gaze wandering past Amara, I find both mine and Darius’ friends, along with a new guard standing only a few paces away. Just Staring. Watching. Watching, I suspect, for the entire time we’ve been rolling around on the forest floor, both of us too lost in one another to take notice of anything but ourselves.

Nope, not wrong.

Mortification fills me as the fire from moments ago travels to my cheeks, coloring them scarlet.

Well, this is awkward.

A male clears his throat.

“What is it, Lennox?” Darius asks, his gaze unmoving from mine.

“There’s a scheduling issue, Sir.”

“You're interrupting me now with a scheduling issue?” Darius snaps.

Darius’ frustration flows down the bond into me and I realize I’ve allowed the connection to reopen. Lennox’s fear lashes out at me and I stiffen, dread filling me as I shut my eyes and spread my senses out. My alarm grows even more when I realize I not only feel Darius’ emotions, but all those present.

Slowing my breaths, I attempt to contain my Gift. It’s a struggle and it takes much longer than usual, but I do eventually succeed. But as I try to do the same to the bond between me and Darius, it resists, slinking between my fingers like water.

Darius cocks his head to the side, eyeing me quizzically as I struggle with the unruly bond, and that's when I feel it. A tap. A poke. Then, inquisitive male fingers crawling along the tether to invade my person.

For as far back as I can remember, I’ve always had the ability to see auras and feel what others do, but I’ve always been passive in receiving only, never interfering. Having to safeguard many secrets myself, I know to cross over that barrier, to interact or alter another's emotions is a violation I'm unwilling to take part of.

But here Darius is, expertly maneuvering as if we've had this bond forever.

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