SKYLA.
I don’t know what it is… but the moment when he looks over his shoulder, something inside of me makes my heart clench.
The distance between us suddenly feels terrifyingly huge and for the first time I ask myself, what are we without the one we love?
“Sky…” Azura tugs me inside and the door slam shuts behind me, making my head jerk My breath hitches, and I stop in my tracks. I suddenly feel… I don’t know, I’m unable to explain it.
I glance back at the door.
“Hey… what’s wrong?” Azura asks softly, as both look at me intently.
I shake my head. I don’t know… I don’t know what’s wrong with me… I just…
“He’ll be fine. He’s one of the strongest people I have come across.” Leo says quietly.
“Yeah… I know… I just… it’s fine.”
It isn’t. I just feel… fuck, it’s weird. I can’t even explain it.
Is it because I know he’s finding this hard?
Is it because I know he’ll feel guilty for tearing down the veil from his mother’s eyes?
I swear, I’m going to make sure we are all there for her, too. Royce and his family will never be alone.
They have and will always have all of us, and we will be that support system for them.
“Come on, let’s get inside. It’s going to be fine,” Leo says as he leads the way.
Azura looks at me with concern as she guides me down the hall, holding my hand.
“Are you sure you’re ok?” she repeats softly.
I shake my head, unable to explain this emotion that is tearing me up inside.
that emotional moment in the car
I’m getting fucking soft.
large
got to love him, but still he’s an A class snitch,
that grudge because fifty percent of the time, he would
Sad life.
towards our table, adjusting the
anything but it’s like a silent exchange before Leo takes his seat, two seats
that he plays a large hand
now, I can tell that despite how calm and relaxed he appears to be, he’s assessing
to us, at the same table as Uncle Liam, Mama Red, and Grandad
the snake, who’s dressed in a
me or does he look different? I’m not sure what it is… his hair looks
around Royce a little too much, but his skin
meet. For the first time, he isn’t hiding behind the fakeness that
dip to my neck and a small smile crosses
He knows.
energy rush through me. Aleric’s eyes flash as they meet mine and everything seems to phase
to be darkening around us and all I can hear is the steady,
I can
me out of that oddness. Although her gaze stays
not the time
for defeating him, it’s on me… I know that. Maybe not
they’ll handle it but I’m with Leo. I don’t
do I feel
are high, especially if there’s a god involved… But the question is, would it be escaping or somehow slithering out of the corner we plan
the ultimate question: are
even I
on, Bastet, show me the
far, it’s been radio silence from her,
place is alight with
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