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He shrugs. “Dying at your hands doesn’t seem like the worst way to go.”
Ugh.
“What? You’re not going to threaten me with my life if I don’t tell you?”
A moment later, Farin is upon me, grabbing my wrists and pinning me to the wall.
“Is that what you’d like, Wanderer? For me to threaten you?”
My breath quickens, and so does my heart. The part of me that values self-preservation says it’s fear that’s causing my body’s reaction. The part of me that knows better tells me it’s something more.
His thumb finds the bone of my left wrist and traces circles into it, his forehead dropping until it’s nearly resting on mine.
My head spins, dizziness overtaking me, but Farin says nothing, does nothing, like he’s patiently waiting for me to make the next move.
Like a predator that lurks in the tall grass, waiting for its prey to flee, lest it cut the chase short.
This will not end well for me, I’m sure of it now.
Hero or villain?
Which role am I to play this time?
It’s usually more obvious to me by this point, but now that I know I’m not here for a specific mission, everything’s muddled. The feel of Farin’s warm breath against my lips is not helping to clear things up.
“Sweet ones. The kind who rescue puppies on their off days,” I say, to which Farin’s face twists in confusion.
It’s enough to break the tension between us, for which I’m rather grateful.
“You asked earlier what sort of male I find myself drawn to,” I say, casually slipping out from underneath his grasp as it loosens around my wrists.
“Oh, I very much doubt that,” he says, and I find myself grateful that I’m turned far enough away that he can’t see the girlish smile breaking across my face.
It’s rather dangerous territory I’m stepping into, helping Farin get back to the woman he so desires. Or, at least, pretending that I am.
Because there’s no eyelet at the end of this journey, not that I’m aware of, at least.
It’s not that there’s not a way out of this world.
Nox wasn’t the only memory that caused my nightmares growing up.
It’s just that I have no intention of admitting to Farin how I can open up my own way out.
Hero or villain?
Which am I this time?
Lying to Farin might get me off this island, might help to ensure that my brother gets the happy ending he deserves, but it will probably end up with me dead.
But let’s just say after dozens of lives lived, I’m bored, and I’m up for a novel experience.
CHAPTER 83
NOX
“Why haven’t you left?”
The question hangs in the air before us, stale as three-week-old snow during the single month of summer Mystral’s allotted.
