Total pages in book: 97
Estimated words: 92612 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 463(@200wpm)___ 370(@250wpm)___ 309(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 92612 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 463(@200wpm)___ 370(@250wpm)___ 309(@300wpm)
“I’m fine, if anyone cares,” Juno calls. “She’s fine, too.”
“She’s bleeding,” he snaps, the words slightly slurred. Then he wipes his less bloody hand on his shirt and slits his finger open with his fang. “Here.” He wipes his blood along the cuts from Juno’s claws.
“Juno.” I stare at him. “You saved Juno.”
“Saved?” Juno scoffs.
Valen ignores her. “I had to.”
“Why?”
He gingerly touches his jaw, then presses the bone back into his skin.
“Are you hurt anywhere else?” He takes one of my hands and frowns at the scrapes.
“Valen.”
He wipes his blood along my wounds.
“Valen, look at me.”
He meets my gaze, his eyes cold at first. The same hardness in them I’ve seen from the moment I woke up in this buried hell. But as I look at him, the ice fractures. Then it melts. Emotion, an entire ocean of it, lives in his gaze. All of it focused on me, tugging at some invisible link I can almost feel.
“Tell me why,” I say softly.
He stills, only his eyes still raging with life, the blue unruly and electric. “Because you would’ve wanted me to.”
“I don’t understand.” I reach up and touch his cheek, the skin warm. “But I want to.”
Something breaks in him. A dam. A dawn. His hand shaking, he puts his wrist to his mouth and slashes deeply. Then he offers it to me.
“Drink.”
I hold his gaze as I lean forward and take his arm in my hands, his blood flowing past my lips and over my tongue. He pulls me closer, my back to his chest as I drink from him.
With a ragged sigh, he presses his lips to my ear and whispers, “Remember.”