Page 239 of Eternal Ruin
Her name on his lips… she shut her eyes. Thank God. He knew her.
“Daughter of Mahlet and Aman, the girl who ruined my rightful inheritance and stole my immortality for months, then surrendered the artifact away.”
Her eyes shot open. “What… no! Who am I toyou?”
Kidan touched him, grabbing his arms and making him hiss again. She couldn’t help touching him, her words were failing her, and she hoped her hands would remind him.
All they seemed to do was set his teeth on edge.
June covered her mouth, eyes stretched in fear. “Kidan… he’s…”
Iniko was silent, studying Susenyos, noting his change.
Reach him. Reach him.
Taj shouted. “If you hurt her again, I swear to—”
“Finish that sentence and I will free you from your tongue.” Susenyos’s anger flickered like a whip.
Taj gaped, blinking.
“Iniko,” Susenyos barked. “If she touches me again, break her legs.”
Before Kidan could register his words, she was being shoved, flying into the air. Until she slammed into a chest, breaking her fall. Iniko.
Susenyos didn’t look back as he vanished into a blurring speed, the slamming of the door echoing throughout.
Kidan shot to her feet.
Iniko blocked her path to the doors.
“Get out of my fucking way—”
“Enough,” Iniko snarled, the first true emotion out of her. “Enough.”
Kidan staggered back. Taj’s face was crested with the same pain, same loss.
No. No.
Kidan turned away from them and reached for the house, staring at her hands with determination.
“If I clap my hands, Susenyos will be as he was.”
The words started to write themselves but faded before they could be set.
No.
“If I clap my hands, Susenyos will return to me,” she said louder.
Again, the law failed.
The master of the house cannot set a new law to rectify what he broke.
It was Taj’s face that finally undid her. The confusion slowly melting to stunned realization, his chestnut eyes filled with unbearable hopelessness.
“The house… took him from you.”
No, she wanted to tell him.I haven’t lost him.
