28. Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter 28
Lucien stared at the dying Australian sunset. The landscape was cast in a myriad of colors until the sky bled into the red sand. The silence was unnerving—not another living creature dared to disturb him. Not even the snakes that often sought him out. Out here, he could pretend to be the last living being left on the land. It was why he had made the desert his home.
But the beauty of the sunset wasn’t what held his undivided attention. Electricity ran through him.
He couldn’t remember the last time he had felt this much power surge through him. Thousands of years ago.
In the quiet, he opened his mind. The cacophony of voices grew until they threatened to breach the barriers he had erected.
Only one other person could awaken them from their endless slumber.
“What have you done, Lilian?”