Chapter 46
KORMAC
Marcus and Olivia pinned my glass body to the wall. I struggled against them, trying my best to break out of their hold.
“Calm down!” Marcus barked, not the cheery angelus I left behind.
At least I wasn’t a ball of light.
“Let go of me!” I yelled. “I have to get back there!”
“Calm down!”
“Why am I here? Why now?” I bellowed.
Why hadn’t my undying power been restored if the soul bond had? And why hadn’t I come here when the iron fire killed me?
All questions I kept screaming at them.
“We don’t know why,” Olivia responded, her voice raised. “We clearly failed to understand the mechanics of destiny.”
I took a breath, halting my struggle. “Isn’t it our job to understand?”
“Maybe we were wrong.”
What did that mean? What did any of this have to do with destiny? Fall in love only to have it ripped away? Escape this place for nothing?
“I’m sorry, Titus,” Marcus said, loosening his grip on me. “I wish I had some answers. It seems destiny is for us to serve, not to understand.”
Wish. A wish brought everything down.
“It’s over for that Faerie,” Olivia added. “It’s… It’s burning.”
With trepidation, and me promising to behave, they took me to Whispering Room 3 to look down on the dying world.
“No…”
Smothered in silver embers, no part of its natural color left for me to see. Burning. Burning. Burning.
“Valance… Is he… Is he dead?”
“We don’t know,” Marcus answered.
But how could he be alive within such a blaze?
I love you, Valance. I only wish we’d been given a chance.