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As more time passes, my thoughts plunge to the darkest rock bottom I’ve ever encountered.
Unwanted images enter my mind. Kai, injured. Bleeding. Struggling as he clings to survival while the lycans feast on his innards. They lap up his blood and chew at his neck until the light eventually goes out in his empty stare.
A gag rises in my throat and tears blur my vision.
Kai might really be gone.
Going into this game, I’d known there was a high probability one of us wouldn’t make it out alive, but it was supposed to be me.
“It was supposed to beme,” I whimper with anguish.
They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die, but what about when someone else dies? Someone you can’t live without?
A quick sequence of memories plays out in my mind.
Kai finding me in Armand’s throne room. His grumpy face. My instant attraction to him. The wrath and determination in his eyes when he agreed to the overlord’s proposal.
The ecstasy we experienced in the bathroom after we showered. The heat in his gaze right before we almost had sex. The way he forced Zarid to his knees, making my abuser apologize for all his wrongdoings.
Seeing Kai smile. Flying with him over Sterling. His insistence that I eat while he goes hungry.
He sacrificed everything for me.
Everything.
I’m so devastated I can barely stand, and I brace myself against the footboard of the bed while I lose it.
I cry the ugliest cry anyone’s ever ugly cried. My heart spasms, and I struggle to make my lungs work. Choppy inhale. Ragged exhale. Pull in a breath, sob it out.
I’m grieving the loss of so much all at once.
The innocent girl I once was. The freedom and choices that were taken from me as Zarid’s wife. My family, both Earth-side and in Valora.
And Kai.
I weep for him the most.
Bang, bang, bang.
The sudden noise behind me startles me so much I almost fall over. Ungracefully, I swivel toward the balcony doors.
Through the cloudy panes, I see Kai’s outline.
He’s here, and most importantly, he’s whole. He has two arms, two legs, and his head. There’s red all over him. I don’t know if the blood belongs to him or the lycans, but I’m just so happy to see him that I scurry over to the door.
After flipping the lock, I yank it open, and vault myself at Kai. I throw myself at him with so much force, I end up latching onto him like a starfish.
Chuckling, he stumbles back. “Hey there, Sunny.”
“You’re okay, you’re okay,” I repeat. “You’re okay, right?”
Instead of answering me, he lightly scolds, “You shouldn’t get so close to me without making sure I haven’t been infected first.”
Good advice, but I’m not willing to separate from him long enough to look him over. “Did any of them hurt you?”
“Well, no,” he replies. “There were a few close calls, but I avoided it.”
“See? Then it’s fine.”
