The Pentagram Child(130)

“I can’t express just how sorry I am that I wasn’t there for you and I know this doesn’t make up for it but I wanted you to know that you still had my heart that day.”

“Oh God!” I said on a whoosh of air that escaped me as he finished this passionate admission when opening the box.

“Do you like it?” He asked after I just stared at the most beautiful necklace I had ever seen, other than the one I had torn off that awful day at the lake.

“It’s…it’s…” I mumbled making him laugh and I couldn’t seem to be able to move my hand from in front of my lips in awe.

“May I?” He asked lifting it from its case and holding it out to me. I could only nod my head as all words escaped me. I felt the few curls that hung down from my pinned hairstyle being brushed gently to one side and he must have felt my shiver.

“Such a beautiful neck needs not only to be framed in the treasures of the earth but to also display the heart she captured long ago.” He added verbally as he placed the heavy weight to my neck before he turned me to face the gold gilded mirror on the wall.

“I give you my heart, Keira.” He whispered in my ear making a single tear fall. I followed its path all the way down my cheek, the side of my chin and then my neck until it reached the large purple heart that lay close to my own. It was stunning and up until that moment I didn’t even know you could get diamonds that colour. It hung by a string of white gleaming diamonds which were flawless themselves but this wasn’t what held my attention. It wasn’t even the heart shape in which the main diamond was cut. No it was what was holding the precious stone either side and it was what my shaky fingertips were reaching up to touch now.

“You told me that you missed my wings, so I added them for you.” He said from my back and my watery eyes sought his in the mirror. Because he hadn’t just given me his heart, he had given me it encased in his wings. This was the exact moment I closed my eyes letting my tears fall and the power they held was the crashing of the waves against my guarded walls. It brought every single last one of them down into the sea of hope with a thunderous roar and I was left with only one thing I needed to hear.

“I need the words.” I said trying to force the sentence past my lips without my voice shaking like my body was. Then without a single second of hesitation he turned me around and said the most beautiful words in the world,



“I still love you.”

And then he kissed me.





Chapter 31

A Royal Appearance.





The kiss.

That kiss.

It was simply the kiss I had been waiting what felt like a lifetime for. It was a mind consuming kiss that stole my senses and electrified them. It was as if Draven had taken every last part of me and was trying to fuse our lost souls together so they would never be alone ever again.

It was the second he placed both his hands on my cheeks and pulled me to meet his lips his touch seared my skin with those delicious tingles. I had almost forgotten what they felt like. In fact I started to shake from the overload of emotions they caused and this was when he decided he too wanted more. He tilted my head to the side and one hand left my cheek to grip the back of my neck. I sucked in a breath and he took this opportunity to deepen the kiss, taking it to a dangerously sexual level. I knew this when he suddenly wrapped an arm around my waist and lifted me up so we were the same height.

Then he consumed me totally with an even deeper kiss.

It was raw power in the way he mastered my mouth. The way he tasted me and searched me out like he needed to remember. It rendered me weak and barely able to hold on. I could feel my cheeks were wet from tears that couldn’t be held back. It was all too much and yet because our bodies craved each other it wasn’t enough. It was like two extreme forces of nature coming together as one and you could just feel the dangerous power underneath the surface begging to be released. I felt his hand slide from my neck to my cheek and wipe away the tears there I had silently cried.

“Draven.” I didn’t know why I whispered his name I just knew that I had to.

“Don’t worry, I have you…” He said placing me gently down on the table.

“…and this time, I won’t ever let you go.” He finished before his lips once again claimed mine. And he was right…

He didn’t let me go, not once.





Draven



By the Gods I could barely believe I finally had her in my arms and was kissing her. It felt as if every cell in my host was coming alive for the first time again since the day all that time ago when my soul first entered it. My body hummed and almost shook with the force of it. In fact I wasn’t the only one with the compulsion to do so as I felt the beauty in my arms start to vibrate with the sheer force of our lips reuniting once again. This was where she belonged, right here in my arms and it felt like nothing else in, not only this world but the next!