121: Missed Her

Cora’s POV

It’d been almost two weeks since I was discharged from the infirmary and not a word had been spoken between myself and Kai about the kiss we’d shared. I was even temporarily relieved of my duties that required me to clean his room thrice a week, and I knew that it was because he was intentionally avoiding me.

The kiss, it was…. I'm not sure there’s a suitable description for it, but it was like being welded into all the dark things about him that strangely appealed to me. It felt like he was gently incorporating me into the dark side and it was the most beautiful welcome one could possibly receive.

For most of the time my head was completely blank and I’d thrown logic out the window but my heart was full, full of all the wonderful sparks that he was igniting as well as the butterflies that’d fluttered past it from the depths of my belly.

It was a wonder to me how something could be so dark yet so pure, so utterly fulfilling.

There were no adequate words for how wrong it was