Pain like nothing I’d ever felt scored through me, carving a chasm into my heart and blinding me as I raced out into the snow. My pulse was pounding a desperate, panicked rhythm as every fibre of my being ached to turn back. To run to him and wrap my arms around him and kiss him like I’d been fated to. But I didn’t. I couldn’t. It was too late anyway. And as a roar filled with pure agony cut through the sky somewhere above me, I knew that Darius knew that too. We’d never even begun and yet I felt like I’d just lost something so important that I couldn’t even breathe.
