Fearful (The Powerless Trilogy #3.5)

by Lauren Roberts

To those fearful of falling—in love or otherwise— you are braver than you know

It is better to feel nothing than it is to feel everything alone.)

Paedyn Gray—Death’s most elusive soul.

Loving is the gravest danger one can put themselves in. Those you hold dear will inevitably slip from between your grasping fingers.

“Sometimes it’s better to stay with someone maddening than to go mad with loneliness.”

Then I laugh. For the first time in weeks, I laugh. “To living with you, Mara.” I lift the coin between us. She drips before me, gaze unwavering. “To accompanying you in death, Kitt.”

“So, you’re saying it is Life that kills?” “It is Life that gives up, not Death that takes away.

Death often thinks on the fragility of Life. Not humans themselves, per se, but how carelessly they are handled by a fickle Fate. One wrong move, one lapse in judgment, and the living are discarded for Death to catch.

But with Death, I feel most alive.

But she can see, more astutely than most, that their constant bickering has become so much more. For it is a language of their very own, a union of souls.

Then, Death believed every bond to be doomed. Lover. Friend. Foe. Now, a certain soul has begun to change her mind. Some, you see, are just meant to be.

It seems in every instance, in every body, Kai Azer chooses Paedyn Gray.

He is now her true north (a dangerous bestowment of Death’s affection). Everything else has faded away. He is her heartbeat.

“Blair, do you understand?” He swallows. “I would know you by the beat of your heart alone. And I think that should count for something.”

Blair huffs. “I’ll be here.” “I’ll know.” “By the beat of my heart?” the Tele blurts despite herself. Lenny turns, throwing a grin over his shoulder. “I’ll follow the sound of it home.”