Chapter 77

Natalia:

We walked through the stony path as Blake kept his arm wrapped around my waist, holding me close.

His words played in my head, and the fact that I knew that they were words of truth, I couldn’t help but feel like my heart was whole.

His eyes met mine and he smiled before kissing my temple.

“It amazes me that the two of you can still find it in you to kiss despite the situation that we are in.” Ariana said, and it took everything in me not to raise an eyebrow at the woman who passed the reaper as if it were nothing. The woman obviously lied, and the fact that she was able to pass him as casually as she did told me that there was something that we didn’t know.

Blake didn’t respond, and instead, he cupped my right cheek and connected his lips with mine. Elijah didn’t look at me, I knew that he wouldn’t be able to look me in the eye after abandoning us to save himself despite me stopping to actually save him. The man would have been dead, just like many others, had we not stoppe