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My gaze locked with his just as a black ring formed around his pupils. His eyes widened in horror, and I guessed the same thing had happened to me too. That was it. We were marked. Star Crossed.
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.
“I needed you so badly, you have no idea,” he said, his voice fading as he pressed me back and searched my face like he was committing it to memory. “Now Solaria needs you…as their Queen. Promise you’ll claim the throne. Share it with Darius, he’s not his father.” His hand fell from my face like he wasn’t able to hold it there anymore. “Promise,” he whispered and the look in his eyes made me give in. “I promise. But you’ll be there too. Darius needs you. I need you.” “You don’t need me, beautiful. I was always a shitty teacher,” he said, taking a rattling breath that chilled me to my core.
