The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 44
Gasping, I turned to the origin of the noise: the sky.
Pink sparks combusted in front of the clouds. Then orange. Then blue. Then gold. An array of dazzling colors exploded in bursting hued sparkles against the sky, as it was jewelry. Amazed, I started at the sky in both terror and half enchantment. Did they color-code bombs now?
Aldrich’s laughter was almost louder than the sky. He watched me as I cowered away, and I turned on him with annoyance. “Why are you laughing at me? What is that?”
seen fireworks before?” he asked in a tone that implied I should
ply colorful explosives,” he i
ey are bombs?”
elebration or display.”
id, blushing.
wondering if Theo has ever seen them,” he mused, watching as gold sprinkled the sky, “I guess I should have wondered for you, too.”
be concerned how loud and fire hazardous it was over so many trees?
plosives so romantic?”
ause you’re with me.”
together like the ocean meets the shore, seamlessly and familiarly. It was also like the tide; it started off soft, then descended into something more like high tide. I wrapped my arms around his neck and his hand traveled down from my face to my hips, pulling me against him. I kissed
ad been given. It was like he was kissing glass, something beautiful and yearned for but something so breakable that could fall to a million tiny sharp pieces in his hands.
ghtly holding it between my teeth. He made a soft noise, and I smiled in satisfaction.
why I had not done this sooner, why I had not shut him up or won an argument with a feverish kiss.
ike our wedding nig
want to have.
away, gasping. I did not catch my breath, too frozen to breathe.
isper.
ed.
wrong then?” Concerned clouded his tone, placing a hand under my chin to take a closer l
he nauseousness made my breath catch.
down. It slightly helped; the recognition in his eyes helped me forget the lingering memory of how distant his eyes were on our wedding night, but how passionate his kisses were. And seeing now that is how he kisses while not under the influence…I felt
” he asked, cupping my fac
ead. “I remembered our wedding night.”
wish I did.”
,” I said, looking away from him to the glittering sky. “It feels wrong.”
ng about it, too. But you have to remember it wasn’t your fault.”
ight,” I murmured, “but when you kiss me like that…”
his hands to his sides.
I nodded.
ould never want to make you upset just so that I could kiss you.”
f the sky before combusting into ribbons of green.
nteraction like this still felt so foreign, like we were supposed to be fighting rather than getting along. My cheeks fe
tand right by the edge.”
heights. I just punched a short tempered prince in the face.”
several moments to cross.
“Are you ready?” he asked with a keen ardor, and I laughe
not ominous, but fascinating.
,” he gestured
efore roaming down to how far it goes down. The distance was vast, as if the balcony was one planet and the ground was another.
ed my eyes at the sight of something on the stone below. It looked like a mangled branch at first. But when I leaned my head slightly down and tilted my head, a streak of horror froze my bones.
the stone several stories down.