Chapter 21

Erik

I feel the shift of the bed as she gets up and walks away from me before I can even open my eyes. A pang of loss resonates inside of me. I know she has not just walked away from me but pulled away yet again.

Anger bubbles inside of me once more like it did that day I finally found out she was alive still. It’s an almost alien emotion, not something that sits well with me and not one I had ever thought I would connect with her.

She had captured my heart the first moment I had found her. We had heard rumours of the hunters rampaging across the land, brutally slaughtering and torturing anyone they considered a witch or even suspected. We had been too late to reach her village.

The carnage that had greeted us was enough to drive fear into the bravest heart and there she was this beautiful delicate soul amongst the devastation. Her amber eyes so full of pain had captured me in their power. She was too young at that time for me to recognise what I had really felt for her,