Vardaesia (The Medoran Chronicles, #5)

by Lynette Noni

She watched as Soraya disappeared and reappeared with the laendra that she then smeared across Niyx’s chest and forced him to drink. She watched as Niyx looked up at her with his knowing, apologetic eyes, fully aware of his fate even if she wasn’t willing to believe it. She watched as he spoke to her in a rasping, pained voice, “Kitten, there’s nothing you can do.” She watched as she adamantly tried to prove him wrong, unwilling to entertain the possibility that he was right. She watched as his wounds failed to close, failed to heal. She watched as he uttered the words that had destroyed her at the time, and again later when she’d read them in the letter he’d left behind for her: “I always knew I would die for you.” And then she continued to watch as the rest of the scene played out until he reached up and cupped her face with his bloodied hand, whispering his final words. “I’ll always be with you, kitten. For as long as there are stars in the sky.”

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