Avery’s heart had stopped, I had heard its last beat.
She sank lifelessly to the ground, Flavian had already disappeared. No… My heart that beat only for her froze, and I was no longer aware of my surroundings.
Suddenly, the ground beneath me trembled from my dark, raging magic. A gust of wind destroyed trees and my fire burned the earth.
I fell to the ground beside her, and my fingers touched her ice-cold skin.
“Please don’t leave me,” I screamed as I violently shook her shoulders, hoping she would wake up. “I need you, please, we didn’t have time.” Bitter tears ran down my cheeks.
All five lifetimes, we hadn’t had a chance to love each other and now I had to say goodbye once again.
She had to listen to all those nasty comments, had to believe them.
The last words she heard out of my mouth were that I didn’t want her. On my soul, I did, I wanted her so badly. In all these years, I could never tell her what I really felt, could never lay my heart at her feet.
“I love you so much, in this life, all the past and all the future ones. We will find each other again, I will find you again.”
I spent an eternity next to her body, rocking her back and forth and crying into her hair.
Until her fingers twitched.
