A Kingdom of Death and Despair by Whitney Dean EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Whitney Dean
- Language: English
- Genre: Erotica
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ZEKE
Since the night Leonidas took Raven twenty-five years ago, my days
had consisted of weights strapped to my ankles while I dragged them
across the ocean floor. It was dark and endless, and breathing wasn’t
necessary because no matter how many breaths I took, everything still
burned. I did not understand why everything around me seemed like such
an endless void until my mother showed me the memory of our first
meeting as children.
My soul had been split into two, and I did not dare to believe I would
ever feel whole.
Until the night she breathed purpose into me.
Raven did not try to pull me up from the abyss. Instead, she stayed at
the bottom with me. She would resurface long enough to draw in enough
oxygen for both of us before returning to dance with me in the depths.
It was her alone that made me want to come back to life.
It was her that slowly brought me to the surface.
Being without her would be what dragged me back down. The freedom
she had awarded me by removing the chains of my regret would return, and
her absence would bring me to my knees. I would crawl across the ocean
floor if it meant I had to breathe without her. I would live without the light
of another day because the darkness would swallow me whole without her
nearby.
And as everything around me blurred while rounding the corner of the
castle into the courtyard, I realized that a home wasn’t made of sticks or
stones. It wasn’t a roof or walls. It wasn’t libraries, throne rooms, or dining
rooms so grand that they seemed pointless. Home was not a place to gather.
At least, not for me.
Home was Raven’s smile. It was the sound of her laughter and the taste
of her lips after she drank wine. It was the gentle sway of her dress when I
chased her down the hall. It was how she rolled her eyes, her frustrated
sighs, and the way she always forgave me.
Home was not the shards of glass at my feet or the echoes of screams
from the chaos ensuing around me. It wasn’t the pitiful number of guards
scouring the island looking for her, nor was it my mother on her knees,
tending to Godfrey’s wound as he slowly bled out.
Raven was my home.
Her warmth, her wild hair, her goddamn stubbornness.
She was the one that stars sang to every night.
Every ember ignited throughout eternity was because someone with a
soul like hers existed.
Raven was my home.
And standing here without the strength to form a complete thought, I
was a man without his home. I was an aimless wanderer moving in slow
motion as I searched for any sign of where she could be, where Cade could
have taken her, and how he managed to get back on the island.
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