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Cricket slides their focus to him. “Meaning stop saying her name. Stop bringing her up as a topic in conversation.”
51. Darkest Of Heartbreaks
Skylenna
Within a breath of a moment while my hands are pressed against his temples, years go by that play out the events of his entire life.
“She loved me,” Kaspias mutters in the safety of Ambrose Oasis. “Sophia loved me.”
The void flickers as my energy depletes. I don’t know how much longer I can last here. My head swims with delirium and fuzziness. Everything starts to sway.
“Skylenna?” Kaspias rises to tower over me in the buttery sunlight.
I shake my head.
“What’s happened?”
“We have to go back,” I slur.
Kaspias nods, wiping fresh tears from his eyes. His hands find mine, and it’s like being sucked into a funnel. A whirlpool. The void blasts us through its cold, windy airway, spitting us back out into the dungeon.
I’m a shivering puddle on the floor, hugging my knees to my chest, hissing out of my chattering teeth. This is going to kill me. I feel it. All heat is seeping out of my pores, leaving my body with every exhale. Even the beating of my heart drudges along, barely making an effort to pump anymore blood in my limbs.
“What can I do?” Kaspias kneels, tucking my hair behind my ears.
My vision clouds over. I can hardly keep my eyes open as ice hardens my spine, chilling my brain to its core.
“B-lankets.”
He leaves the room, footsteps heavy and loud as they thump against the cracked stone floors. Unsure how much time passes, my eyes flutter open as he returns with dirty cotton blankets. He wraps them around my shoulders, tucking their edges under my chin.
“What else?” He keeps his swollen eyes level with mine, waiting patiently for my next request.
“I n-eed you to take m-me back to my friends,” I say quietly. “And I’ll n-need you to find a way to g-get us all out of here.”
He shakes his head in disbelief. “Getting that many high-profile prisoners out is impossible.”
My hazy eyes shoot up to meet his. “A-and you’ll find a way. F-f-for your brother and everything you’ve just c-cost him. Now take me back to them. Please.”
In his strong arms being carried through the long, grim halls of this prison, I feel safe. The same way I’ve felt every time Kane carried me long distances. I press my cold face against the armor on his chest, trembling belligerently as I try to block out the breeze brushing past my arms through the small holes of the cotton blankets.
“I’ll do everything in my power to get you out of here,” Kaspias whispers as we get closer to my cage.
“Okay.”
“What the fuck have you done to her?!” Warrose’s unmistakable baritone voice slams into my ears and startles my eyes to blink open.
Kaspias pauses. “It’s what she’s done to me.”
I hear someone gasp. And my heart twists in my chest at the thought of Dessin looking at me right now. Tears bulge over my eyes as I realize that I can’t help him right now. I can’t make him remember me.
“Who should I leave her with?” Kaspias asks.
A violent sound of something slamming into metal rings through my ears, and I flinch in Kaspias’s strong arms.
“Throw her off the fucking tower for all I care.”
Dessin.
