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He was more than a flame. More than danger and more than a predator.
But my time with him was always so limited, as if being with him shouldn’t feel this right, this blissful.
I curled into him, burying myself in his warmth even as I mumbled, “I must go now.”
“Will I see you again tomorrow?” he whispered softly, his hand playing with my hair.
It was all it took to douse my peace.
I retreated to gaze into his eyes so he could see my remorse. “Not tomorrow—” The words evaporated from the tip of my tongue when I noticedpanicin his eyes before it turned to fury.
It was one step closer to unravelling Eon. He tried to bury emotions he deemed as a weakness and replaced them with those fit for his kind.
But I saw him.
I knew him.
“I need to stay with my people for some time, but I promise you.” I pulled him towards me and kissed his blood-red lips with as much emotion as I could show, pulling back only when I felt his heart slowing down. My lips felt hot and puffed, tingling a little. “I will always come back to you.”
The blaze in his eyes died until not even embers remained. But the look in them remained heated—for a different reason, one of those gazes that had my breath thickening in my lungs. With his hand gripping the back of my head, Eon leaned in and kissed my forehead, his warm lips lingering.
He had to have noticed my ears curling.
When he withdrew, it was reluctant and slow, his silence so heavy I felt it wrap around me like the phantom touch of his retreating embrace.
“Go… my Elf.”
I couldn’t ever describe how I felt every time he called me his Elf. It made me not want to call for Keia and the blue dove. It made me not want to leave his land. It made me not want to run back to my world where I was meant to be.
When he called me his Elf, it made me not want anything but to go back to his warm arms.
23
When I had returned home from the Spiders’ world, almost everyone had stopped to burn me with their gazes.
For a moment I’d panicked and thought I’d been caught, but then someone pointed to the blue dove on my shoulder and it made sense. Blue doves were rare in our world. We would be extremely fortunate if some decided to fly into our portal—accidents counted, too. Otherwise, they were mostly found in the Fairies’ world and the Spiders’.
My family found it concerning, but I had assured—lied—and convinced them that the dove happened to fly by as I was spending some time with Keia, and I had decided to care for the dove as though she was my own companion—she’d become my second.
“Where did you jump off to last night?”
I lowered my food and stared at the wooden table in silence as my brother began to interrogate me. The rice-and-parsley-stuffed potato didn’t look so delicious anymore. I breathed in quietly and lifted my eyes to meet my brother’s. Mother went to bathe with her friends, and father was with the village Elders, teaching the younger Elves about the different worlds and their species.
My brother’s questioning gaze held me down like chains. His seriousness tightened those chains, so much that even breathing felt odd, and I found myself becoming frantic to escape.
“I, ah,” I stammered, coughing a little when his eyes narrowed. “I went exploring.”
“Where?” he repeated.
A spark ignited in me and I found myself glaring at him. “Why are you questioning me? You have the freedom and choice to do what you want and go where you want, but I can’t?”
“This isn’t about freedom and choice, Kenia.” He frowned, looking at me with a gleam of disappointment in his eyes.
The look tightened my chest with guilt. “I was in the Fairies’ land.”
“Why?”
“Faelyn!” I shouted, resting my hands on the table as I sprang up from my seat. My outburst startled even me, and I blinked, grimacing as I lowered my head and sat down on my chair again. “I’m sorry.”
