Page 90 of The Stone Secret
I hate myself.
I fucking hate hurting her like this. But this is the point I should leave her. Just walk away and leave her wounded and wary. But instead, I bridge the final distance between us and claim her trembling lips. Her sob breaks against my mouth, and she sinks into me, giving herself to me in a kiss that slices a path across my aching heart.
I don’t want this moment to end.
I don’t want to let her go.
But I have to.
My eyes burn as I break contact and step away.
Her chin quivers, and she wraps her arms around her body, dropping her gaze to the tiles.
She looks broken, and it’s my fault. “I’ll give you some time to gather yourself and go to your room. I need to let Willowman know what just happened here.”
I step outside to find Orix standing to one side of the door, his back to the wall. His eyes flash with anger. “I don’t understand how nature can be so cruel.”
Neither do I. Neither do I.
CHAPTER38
CURI
“Are you all right?” Selas asks.
Me? I’m fucking peachy. But Cameron… “Willshebe all right?”
“We’ll make sure of it.” She’s watching me shrewdly, her milky gaze probing.
“What?”
She shakes her head. “Nothing.”
Touron rushes into my room and comes to a sharp halt at the sight of Selas.
An emotion I can’t define flits across her face. “Mr. Lomax…”
“Miss Mason,” Touron says.
There’s a strange tension in the room that has nothing to do with what just happened.
What did just happen?
Serath took Cam.
He took her because she’s his mate.
He’s a sigma.
This is bad.
Do they know? They must know. But I need to be careful because what if they don’t know?
“I saw Serath come up here,” Touron says. “But Cam came up with you,” he says to me.
“Serath has Cam. She’ll be fine,” Selas says.
“Is she…” He clears his throat. “Is everything okay?”
