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Soteria trailed after me towards The River Oblivion, located only meters away from her house. As I approached, I turned towards her, not giving her my back. Lest she shove me in, foiling my entire bloody plan. She had the audacity to look disappointed as she stepped up beside me.
I willed the pythos into my hand. It was terribly pretty. Like my mate. Such a shame to shatter it.Them.Her eyes widened at the sight of it. I willed a coffee mug into my free hand, passing it to her.
She hesitated, staring at the thing like it had threatened her.
“Unless you’d prefer to take a bath?” I asked, voice dripping with impatience and sarcasm to mask my broken heart.
She snatched the mug before squatting at the river’s edge. A trembling hand carefully scooped up the river’s glowing pale blue water. My heart pounded furiously in my ears.
She would forget me. She would forget everything.
Including my brother.
Her eyes, filled with tears and resignation, bore into mine.
If I didn’t force her to reincarnate, she would begin to remember, little by little, perhaps in within the span of a human lifetime or two… Which was the blink of an eye to ones such as us. And that look in her eyes told me she knew it. And all of this would amount to nothing but more hurt and betrayal.
My words came out little more than a whisper on a broken laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. My emotion sliding down my cheeks, on display for her.
“I missed you.”
She studied me for several moments as if she were trying to memorize every detail. Every feature.
She shrugged helplessly, huffing a soft, joyless laugh.
“I missed you, Keres. There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I haven’t.”
It took everything in me to not crumple.
“At least now, I won’t have to feel this way any more,” she added mournfully.
Soteira brought the cup to her lips, quickly tossing it back.
The pythos in my hand shattered.
A dazed, exhausted look came over Soteira’s face as it scrunched up in confusion. Tremors wracked my whole body as I stepped toward her. She stumbled, dropping the cup, and again, I caught her.
She looked up at me with those big, beautiful green eyes that I’d fallen in love with from the moment I’d laid eyes on her.
“Hello, angel,” I murmured softly. Sadly.
Her brow pinched with confusion before relaxing at the sight of me. The warmth of my love suffused my chest and seemed to spill out of me as though it would try and swim the distance between us, even without the tether to bind us.
She felt this, too.
Her voice breathless with something like recognition.
“Hi.”
Slowly, I leaned in close.
She allowed it. Some unwitting instinct had her even tilting her head back as if to bare her throat for me to mark her. Again. My gaze dropped to her neck, where my claiming marks were still visible.
I closed the tiny distance between us, pressing my lips to hers. A sigh left her, and she opened instantly for me. She tasted like my first drink of water after traversing the fucking desert for too many lifetimes. My heart swelled so powerfully, with both overwhelming love and relief, that I had to choke back a sob.
My breath shuddered out of me, and I knew if I hesitated a moment longer, I wouldn’t be able to go through with it. And if I didn’t, my brother would hunt her down and steal her away from me all over again.
Iwilledmy dagger into my hand. The daggershehad gifted me all those years ago.
