Zevran.
My heart was racing like a motherfucking wild bird in my chest, and that is because for the past two hours or more, I have been pretending to be asleep while I waited for the familiar sound of heels hitting the floor just as Kael had described.
After the whole debacle of who Leilani would mate with had settled, Darius had as promised tried to rupture— is rupture the word?— the spell, and it had worked…
Goddess even for a minute, I had begun to think that he had the power to lift it but had simply decided not to because of the so-called trap!
—And now… now, we were stuck at waiting.
Kael was pretending not to be fully recovered from his previous encounter with the girl and Caelum… well, Caelum was pretending to be old Caelum— simply detached and unfazed. But I could hear his heart beating in his chest even from a mile away.
