NovelEnglishChapter 48 AURORA I peered around the corner ...
But the hall was empty.
A door closed just where I was sure Id heard Evelyn.
I knew she was in there with someone.
Someone shed been kissing? Was it possible? Evelyn had been the bane of my existence for so long.
She was always there, putting a wedge between Dane and I, calling him away to spend twith her when he wasnt working, whining and asking him for things, then accusingof gold digging, when I didnt have a fraction of what she did.
How could it be possible that she was cheating on him? And if she was ... was her child even his ? I pressed my hand to my lips .
Part ofwanted to barge into that room and find out for sure.
The other part... If I wanted to walk away from this with my children, I needed her to have his baby.
It was better if I didnt know.
If I knew for certain, I would have to decide whether or not to tell him.
I tucked this moment into the back of my mind.
Maybe Id have Trajan investigate.
Shed spent years lording over me.
It would be a welcchange to have something to lord over her .
After the incident with Evelyn, I tried to find Dane.
But he was nowhere to be seen.
Not in his office or his rooms.
The only other places I could think of that he might be were training ... or visiting Piper and Connall in the infirmary.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtI wouldnt disturb him in either of those places.
***** That night, I dreamed.
I was walking around the pack house again, searching for Dane .
All of the doors were thrown open, but the pack house was empty.
But moonlight shined through the windows, and I knew, somehow, he was here.
Dane? Find him... The words cfrom somewhere inside... like something faint and distant and half forgotten was speaking deep inside.
my mind.
I stopped and looked around.
Hello? Who was that? Chapter 48 The voice didnt respond.
When I caround the corner to the grand ballroom where the gala had been held, there he was .
3/6 He stood alone in the moonlight, holding out his hand so the silver light fell on it.
It changed from pale hand to claw to paw and back again.
I thought he wouldnt see me.
But when I reached the doorway, he turned.
Aurora, he whispered.
We moved toward each other, and he took my hand.
I couldnt explain why I did it, or why it felt so right in this place to leave everything that troubled us in the real world behind.
As he touched me, the house melted away and reformed into a grotto deep in the forest .
We were on a narrow spit of land in the center of a raging river, its waters roaring around us. The breeze whipped the leaves of the trees into a frenzy, and I swore I heard a voice.
Behold what is broken ....
It wasnt the sas the voice that had cfrom inside me.
Instead, this one was all around, like it cfrom the land, itself.
Like it cfrom the silvery light, shining down on our heads. Whats happening? Where are we ? I asked.
Chapter 48 I dont know.
Danes voice was gruff His hand was still in mine.
4/6 Below my feet, the ground crumbled away and fell into the raging dark water.
I scooted back, but it kept crumbling until there was no more room.
Until I ran into Dane.
I nearly expected him to shovein the water rather than share his space with me, but he grabbedand turnedtoward him and put his arms around me.
Hold on to me, he said.
If we go into the water, dont let go.
I wrapped my arms around his waist and buried my fast against the hot, hard muscles of his chest and waited to fall.
Soon, any second, the earth beneathwould be gone and wed plunge into the river ... But we didnt.
When I raised my head and looked around, the river was gone.
We were in a moonlit clearing.
Dane still heldtightly.
Dane ... I think were safe.
He gazed down at me.
Im still not letting go.
Here, at least, I can pretend.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmHere, I can have what I want.
Then he bent and kissed me, sweet and tender, then harder, more passionate .
His tongue slid into my mouth, and my core lit with a slow rising heat Chapter 48 Dane ... Givethis, he said. Take it with me.
So I stopped thinking, and I kissed him back.
5/6 I wasnt sure how much tpassed when I woke from the dream, but I woke hat and twisted in my sheets and aching, with tears streaming down my cheeks. I could still feel him, still taste him.
But it would never be real.
And that hurt more than almost anything Id ever felt in my life.
DANE I shot up in bed, my body hard and throbbing .
I gritted my teeth.
Stupid fucking dream.
I hated it... and I wanted it back.
I rubbed my face and got out of bed and checked the time.
4:30 AM.
Whatever.
I could survive on a few hours of sleep.
I certainly wasnt getting anymore.
To take my mind off Aurora and the dream, I opened my computer.
I might as well get swork done.
Then I saw what was waiting forin my email inbox.
A Chapter 48 6/6 The analysis of the recording Esther gave me.
The one that proved Aurora was part of the kidnapping, that she planned to drug
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