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“Wait! What the hell is he going to do to my sister?” Now, Yasmin was hurrying around to my side of the bed, ready to interfere.
Allera let go of Soren so she could stop Yasmin.
“No, just let him…”
There was a scuffle after that, more people in the room, all of them arguing, yelling, shoving. None of them wanting me near my one true love.
But I couldn’t focus on any of that. I was too busy staring into her pale, lifeless features. This was the first time I’d ever seen her without the effect of my mark telling me how stunning she was. She was so colorless with deep purple bruises under her eyes. Her face was slightly swollen from the birthing process, and beads of sweat had caused her honey blonde hair to mat itself to her cheek.
Underneath all that, though, she really was an exquisite woman. She had a beauty from within that just seemed to shimmer out onto her features. Except the within-part of her was quickly fading.
Panicked that I might not be able to recapture it, I trembled, my fingers shaking uncontrollably as I lifted them slowly to cup her face in my hands.
Her flesh was already cold. I sucked in a worried breath.
“Please,” I whispered. “Please come back to me.”
I lowered my face and gently pressed my mouth to hers.
At first, all I was doing was kissing a corpse, cold and lifeless. I shuddered and squeezed my eyes closed, pressing my mouth harder to hers. A tear slipping from the corner of my lashes.
Why I wanted to recapture the torture of always craving her and never having her, I had no clue. But I did. I wanted it desperately. It had made me feel…complete. Fulfilled. Loving someone was better than feeling nothing and having no one. I could handle the miserable parts of it, I promised myself. I’d deal with all the downfalls if only she would return.
Please, my soul begged hers from the pit of my being. Come back to me. I need you. Your baby needs you. We all need you.
And just like that, I felt it. The tug, and then the warmth and glow of the bond. It sparked through me with a joy that had me sucking in a breath and pulling back.
I saw her lips part as if breath was returning to her body. Color filled her cheeks and her lashes began to flutter before a hand roughly grasped my shoulder, jerking me away.
“What the fuck?” Soren growled, tugging me in reverse until my back hit a wall. “How dare you touch my wife? You sick, perverted—”
“Oh my God. OH MY GOD!” Yasmin chanted, cutting him off. “Soren! She’s alive. Oh my God, she’s alive!”
“What?” He stopped pinning my throat to the wall with his forearm so he could spin around and face the bed.
I was finally able to see past him where the healers had laid the babe down and were gathering around Vienne, tutting among themselves and pressing fingers against her cheeks as she
shook her head loosely, her eyes fluttering open.
“My God,” Soren uttered, hurrying to her side. “Vienne? Vienne!”
Seeing her try to speak and focus on the people hovering over her made a deep seizure of trembles overtake my limbs.
She was alive. She was back.
My legs gave out under me, and I sank to the floor, sitting there and watching everyone attend to my one true love.
“Urban?” Allera appeared in front of me, kneeling before me and cupping my face in her hands.
“You did it,” she whispered, tears shedding down her cheeks and a wide smile overtaking her lips. “That was fantastic. Oh my God, you actually did it!”
For some reason, looking at her made me break. My trembling turned worse and my own tears thickened. When a deep sob took control of my chest, I shook my head.
“Fuck,” I hissed.
Why couldn’t I stop trembling? And why the hell was I crying? I’d brought her back. She was going to live. Everything was going to be okay.
But we’d been so close to losing her forever. Too damn close.
