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“It’s okay,” he replies, kissing me once again.“I’ll sleep a little extra tonight and I’ll be fine in the morning.”
“You sure?”I ask, still thinking it’s strange how vampires can make up for lack of food by just sleeping more.
“If I wasn’t I wouldn’t have said so.”
“Okay.I love you.”
“And I love you, my goddess.”
“Oh god,” I groan with a laugh.“I’m never going to live this down, am I?”
“You shouldn’t.Not ever.”He covers us both up and pulls me close, wrapping me tight in his embrace.I fall asleep quickly, feeling safe in Lucas’s arms.A war is coming, but tonight, I sleep well knowing I won this battle.
I sleep for a solid five hours, until Binx gently paws me awake, letting me know there’s someone on the porch.He can’t get a read on their energy, yet it’s familiar and a tad chaotic.
“Julian,” I breathe, heart skipping a beat.Careful not to wake Lucas, I slowly and silently slip out of bed.Juliet is asleep in her swing like usual and the rest of the house is quiet and still.I pad down the hall with Binx weaving between my legs.Osiris said he’d make things up to me, to prove he didn’t trick me into claiming my birthright.
I’m beaming when I get to the front door, quickly waving my hand in front of it to undo the magical locks I put on last night.I can’t freaking wait to see Julian again and tell him everything he’s missed.And—oh my god—to introduce him to Juliet!He may or may not understand when I say we named her after him, just with a feminine twist.
“Juli—” I exclaim as I throw open the door, but my voice dies in my throat.Julian isn’t on my porch.There’s no man at all.Instead, a woman stands before me, and it’s almost like I’m looking into a mirror.Her dark brown hair hangs in loose curls, coming down just below her shoulders.She’s wearing a fitted navy blue suit that was in fashion twenty five or so years ago.But the most striking thing about her are her eyes.
Emerald green, just like mine.
We stand there, neither of us speaking for what feels like forever.Then her lips part and she looks me up and down.
“It’s you,” she whispers, eyes filling with tears.“You’re alive.”She reaches out and I take a step back.“It’s okay,” she tells me as a tear rolls down her face.“It’s okay, Callista.It’s me.Your mother.”
The End
FALL OF NIGHT
BOOK 11 IN THE THORNE HILL SERIES
COMING 2025
PartOne
Immortal Night
Immortal Night
A companion novel toDead of Night(Book One in the Thorne Hill Series)
Copyright 2019
Emily Goodwin
ChapterOne
There’s a darkness inside of me.A black void that’s been there for so long I don’t remember what it’s like to not feel the painful numbness.Maybe the darkness has always been there.
Or maybe I’m so far gone into the dark there’s no coming out.
There was a time when all I wanted was the dark.To become it.To let it consume me.To leave its trail everywhere I went.I found joy in the darkness.But now…now the darkness has taken everything I had left to give, chewed it up, and spit it back out.
The void inside me is spreading, growing bigger and bigger, taking the ground out from under my feet like sand slipping away on the shore.I can step back onto more solid ground, but the tide will find me.No matter how many steps back I take, it always finds me.
I want so desperately to find something to cling to, some sort of solid ground to stand on.I need a purpose, something to live for.
