Touch of Winter by Shear L.K

Author:Shear, L.K.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Forrest

My head was pounding, and my collarbone was itching, but I was ignoring all of it. I couldn’t stop to think about. If I stopped, it was all going to come crashing down around me, and I could not afford to lose control like that. I had fled from the hot springs, taking off into the forest, moving deeper, away from anywhere that anyone was likely to stumble across me. I wasn’t even heading towards the house, not wanting to run into the other Princes. I just needed to get away from everyone and everything.

For the first couple of minutes I had listened as I ran, waiting for Tie to come after me. He was always trying to get us to talk about things, vent how we were feeling, or just gossip with him, no matter how much Dom and I tried to convince him that we hated talking things out. When I didn’t hear him after the first five minutes, I slowed down, no longer zipping through the air, moving closer to a walk.

I wasn’t ready to come out of my specter form yet, even if Tie wasn’t following me. I didn’t enter this form often, as useful as it was. Being incorporeal and invisible to most people was incredibly useful when you were sneaking around, or spying on people. Like most inherent Scion abilities, it also had a downside. Everything became harder to feel, be it temperature, physical sensations, but especially my emotions. I knew that most people thought I was unfeeling, but I just didn’t like broadcasting my feelings for everyone to know.

I wasn’t going to have the luxury of hiding when it came to having a fated mate.

The only fated mates that I knew were Lawrence and Nora, and a pair of Spring Courtiers who had graduated our freshman year. Most people didn’t have a fated mate, and I had hoped that I was one of them. It was all an egotistical wank-fest to think about anyway.

As if anyone’s relationships actually mattered to fate, as if fate cared about who we were sleeping with.

There were members of my own court who put a lot of stock in fate, I just wasn’t one of them. I didn’t know much about fate, but I knew people and people were messy, but they were predictable. It was that predictability that most people imagined was fate.

My thoughts were churning worse and worse with each step that I took. I was hoping that getting distance from Mar- from the woman, would give my thoughts room to calm down enough so that I could collect them and work out what it was that I was going to do. Each step away from the campus though, away from her, made me feel like my skin was itching. The itching got worse with each step, the feeling concentrating on my collarbone. It was starting to feel like there was some sort of tie between the mark on my body, and the woman I had left behind.

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