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Lopan sat on the other side of them, his feet kicking against the dais as Calah relit one of the candles. Daisy hovered over River’s shoulder, floating back and forth as she stared at the book.
River stopped reading when the door closed and looked up at me. Joy lit her face. On the day of her twenty-third birthday, she’d stopped aging and frozen into her immortality. Other than no longer aging, her body remained human in every other way.
We didn’t know if she could regenerate lost body parts, neither of us were willing to risk what that would entail to find out, but she was an immortal. My immortal.
She went to lift Bailey from her arms to rise, but I waved her down. “I’ll come to you. It is easier that way.”
She laughed as I closed the hundred feet separating us in a breath of time. Bailey scrambled from her arms and into Gage’s when I stopped before her and bent to kiss her.
Resting my hand on her extremely round stomach, I felt the kick of our child within her. River placed her hand over mine and sparks raced across her fingers. Like her, the babe already fed on life, and she drew constantly on it to keep the child and herself healthy.
“Your son is extremely active today,” she said.
“So certain it’s a boy?” I asked as the babe shifted and kicked at me again.
“Oh yes, and he’s as stubborn and cranky as his father already.”
“I’m not so cranky anymore, not with you in my life.”
She grinned as she kissed my neck. “True, you are much nicer now than when I first met you.”
I rubbed my hand over her stomach and the babe kicked again. By the end of the month, our son would be born. “That’s because you have given me everything I ever wanted, and things I never dreamed of having,” I replied.
“I love you,” she whispered.
I lifted my head to gaze into her violet eyes, shining with vitality. “And I you, Mah Kush-la.”
Squirming from Gage’s arms, Bailey walked over and held his hands out to me. He wrapped his arms around my neck when I lifted him. The child had become more like my own over the year and he often sought me out when he needed comfort. Gage had become my brother, one who was rapidly growing toward manhood as he grew taller and broader.
“Have you felt this today?” I asked Bailey, and he nodded as he placed his hand next to mine on River’s stomach. My son kicked again and Bailey squealed in delight.
Gage leaned against River’s side as Lopan, Daisy, and Calah slipped out of the hall to leave me alone with River and our growing family.
THE END
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Hell on Earth focuses on Corson and Wren.
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HELL ON EARTH EXCERPT
- CHAPTER 4 -
Wren
“Help!” I screamed and leaped at the dirt wall before me. My fingernails tore away dirt as I tried to gain purchase on the wall. At least five hundred feet over my head, the dim light of day was a small circle that seemed about as achievable as Heaven right now. “He—aggghh,” my scream for help cut off when a hand slid over my mouth.
Pulled back against Corson’s solid chest, his breath sounded in my ear as he held me firmly. I clawed at his hands as I tried to break free of his hold. “Quiet!” he hissed in my ear.
Releasing me, he stepped away. I strained to see him as he moved in and out of the shadows, disappearing and reemerging in the dim light while he circled the pit. He stopped before another tunnel and rested his hand against the dirt wall. Leaning forward, he inspected the opening.
I reached over my back when I realized that a familiar weight was missing. Glancing around, I spotted my bow half hidden in the shadows. I strode over and grabbed it. My heart sank when I pulled the pieces toward me. There would be no putting together the snapped wood and broken string.
I glanced around for my quiver and arrows. I spotted the edge of my quiver peeking out from under the deer. Walking over, I lifted the deer with one hand and after some maneuvering and silent curses, I managed to tug the quiver out from under the deer. I lifted the crumpled remains of my quiver and turned it over to dump out my arrows. Their broken pieces bounced across the ground as they scattered around my feet.
Dropping my hands to my knees, I took a second to steady myself before looking to Corson again. “Can you climb out of here?” I demanded of him in a whisper.
He tossed a look over his shoulder at me. “By the time we reached the top, it would be too late.”
I blinked at him before glancing at the circle above again. I liked the sound of that about as much as I liked the idea of having my fingernails pulled out. “What does that mean?” I asked as I focused on him again.
“It means that our fall and your yelling will have woke the beast. It will be looking for its dinner.”
“And we’re its dinner?”
“Yes.”
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