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Stumbling away from him, I run toward the palace. I won’t make it around the building, but there’s a hole in the side of the throne room where a rock hit. Maybe I can get inside and curl up under a table or something.
Boom. Crack.
The most awful sound of destruction stops me in my tracks, and I look over my shoulder.
The meteor has landed in the middle of the garden, on top of the fountain. Marble and stone spray up in a thirty-foot wall of debris, but that’s not what has my heart in my throat.
The boulder doesn’t embed into the ground. Instead, it starts rolling and bouncing.
Straight at Kai.
He’s in such a frenzy, he’s unaware of the danger he’s in. His head is down, and his arms are hurriedly spelling out the last letter.
He’s going to get killed.
An odd sort of clarity washes over me.
In this moment, I finally see my worth. My purpose. I know what I’m meant to do.
I can change the future.
Aside from the fact that I can’t handle losing Kai, there’s another reason he has to survive: If he dies, so does Valora.
Because if these meteors are really going to happen, Kai must make it out alive so he can deliver the message for real.
The message that will save an entire world.
Sprinting over the trembling terrain, it feels like I’m in slow motion as I return to Kai. My limbs are heavy like I’m moving through water, but I keep going.
The boulder is speeding along, and I’m racing against it.
Fueled by adrenaline and determination, I get to my husband with only a second to spare.
Before the big mass can crush him, I place my hands on Kai’s shoulders and shove him with all the strength I can muster.
He’s a solid guy, but with how low he is to the ground, it’s not difficult to knock him off balance.
He falls forward, smoothly tumbling into a somersault and pivoting to see what—or who—pushed him out of the way.
“Oof.” I land hard on my stomach, right where Kai had just been.
His eyes widen with fear when he realizes what I’ve done, and his opens his mouth to say something, but it’s too late for me.
Keeping my gaze on him, I spend the last split-second of my life looking at the man I love. The brave warrior who showed me how to love myself.
Managing to give him one last sad smile, I convey the acceptance of my doom.
Kai
“NO!” I shout before I’m forced to witness the most agonizing event in history.
The large, jagged rock mows my wife down. It bangs against her head and rolls over her midsection with such force that it flips her from her stomach to her back, leaving her lying there, bloody and broken.
Then it continues on its path, undeterred, like it didn’t just destroy my world.
“Sunny,” I cry out, scrambling over to her. “No. No, no, no.”
Kneeling next to her limp, severely battered body, I feel like I can’t breathe as I take a visual stock of her extensive injuries.
