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“My brothers tried to kill me,” he said, devoid of emotion. That wound he had dealt with.
Leah’s eyes widened.
“Don’t worry.” Taryn hurried to reassure her. “They don’t know where I am, and they pose no danger to you.”
“But they do,” she whispered, horrified. “I just met one of them.”
20
LEAH
”We say nothing until we are inside,” had been the only words Taryn had said to her after she’d revealed she’d come face to face–or face to hologram–with one of his blasted relatives. The rest of the flight passed in tense silence.
They’d curiously calmed her down. It seemed like there was literally no love lost between Taryn and his brothers.
Leah had meant what she’d said when the two of them had met. She’d gotten lucky with Nana. She wasn’t about to judge someone who had been born into the wrong family.
Taryn obviously had no ties with his relatives. If he’d lied and he was some kind of manipulative master genius, that was on him. Leah was taking no blame for others trying to present themselves as something other than what they were.
Something in his aura told her that he wasn’t lying. Call it foolishness, she called it instinct.
But just because she believed him didn’t mean he would believe her when she told him why she was on Quillon.
Lightmate or not, she’d come here with a heinous purpose. For the right reasons, but Leah wasn’t all that convinced they justified the means.
She’d been desperate. She still was desperate, but something about Taryn made the danger seem smaller now. Like she could conquer it, with his help.
Leah had never been much of a winner in life, though.
Everything could be destroyed the moment she opened her mouth and told him the truth.
He’d done it with her. It was her turn. But could she do it?
She had to, didn’t she?
But it hurt her to think this could be the end between her and Taryn. Would he be able to forgive her? Did she deserve it?
All these thoughts swirled inside her mind, building into a deafening ruckus that made her breathe faster and harder.
Right as she was about to hyperventilate, a sharp cliff jutted out in the distance. It was gray, with soft flecks of green in its crevices.
It looked unscalable, rising from the orange dirt into a sharp point. No extra rocks or greenery on it, either. It sucked in the light coming from the twin stars, spearing the view.
Curiously, the ship didn’t swerve away from it, even as they got dangerously near it.
“Uhm…Taryn?” she asked. “Is the ship mad at us and intent on seeking bloody revenge or…?”
“No,” he said without the slightest trace of a smile. “I’m told it’s quite a sight to behold.”
Leah might have been on the path to trusting Taryn, but her human senses sure weren’t. They saw a rock and they reacted.
Her muscles tensed, her heart beat faster, her eyes widened.
But just as the ship was only a few feet away from smashing into the cliff and turning them into a bloody mess, the rock before them slid down.
In a flash, the ship was safely landinginsidethe cliff.
This had to be the weirdest garage Leah would ever get to see. Did people still have those back on Earth? Maybe, but with so few cars owned nowadays, it was difficult to estimate.
