Chapter 127
Chapter 127
LUNA AQUAMARINE’S POV
“Levi!” My voice cracked. “Read it–read what it says!”
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He was pale, yanking at the chains like it would fix everything. “Luna-”
“Try!” I shoved him, desperate. “I know you can’t but you know more than I do.”
“It’s not that,” He shook his head, lips trembling. “I can’t see it. I can’t see the writings.”
I froze. “What? What do you mean you can’t see it?”
I looked at the veins on Alexander’s back, still drawing lines slowly and painfully.
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“Only you can help him.” Levi whispered urgently, “Just try something I’ll help with whatever I can.”
I pressed my fingers to them, tracing the glowing script.
“Only…. only,” the words trembled out of my mouth as the letters scattered in my head, burning holes behind
my eyes.
I just kept saying that one word over and over again as tears streamed down my face. For the first time, when he needed me the most, I couldn’t even help him.
“P–paper,” Alexander groaned.
I swallowed the panic. “Paper,” I whispered. “Give me paper.”
Levi, shoved it into my hands with charcoal. I copied the script, line by line, my hands shaking, tears smearing the black. I didn’t know if it was right. I just wrote until my fingers cramped.
Then I handed it to Levi who just stared at me. I paused, he can’t read. I bit my tongue, how could I forget that?
Aaron.
My words came out like sobs. “Get Aaron-”
“Not possible,” Levi shook his head. “He doesn’t know enough about Alexander. None of them do.”
True. Alexander had told me not even Levi knew of this place.
“What about the Elders-“I froze. The thought turned my stomach. No. They’d drag him out, expose and even kill him.
him
I can’t get to Clifford either. I show it to him, but that would take too much time and I can’t share this with him.
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I don’t know if Levi even killed him yesterday.
There was only one way. I lowered my head in shame to meet Alexander, I pushed the paper into his hands, my voice shaking. “Read it… please.”
His chains rattled.
His burning eyes locked on the words I’d copied. His lips moved. At first, nothing came out–just a rasp. Then finally, he forced the words through clenched teeth. “Fuck,” he whispered, his voice raw.
My heart skipped a beat and fresh tears started flowing. “What does it mean? Alexander–tell me.”
Then his shoulders slumped, the fight leaving him.
I waited, but he didn’t look at me.
“Centuries ago, I was cursed,” he said finally. His voice didn’t sound like his–it was lower, hollow.
My brows creased.
Centuries?
“By a witch, Gwen. I killed her son… took what was hers–the Book of Ashes.”
Book of Ashes?
That same cursed book he couldn’t touch? Why did he steal what he can’t touch?
He nodded as if he read my thoughts. “She left her vengeance branded on me.”
I swallowed hard, my mind spinning with questions as my hand went to his back again. He seemed to have stopped shaking. “What was the curse?” I asked, hoping he would say it this time.
His lips tightened. “If I do not have an heir… then my bloodline ends with me… the beast will consume me whole. I will be trapped in this form–forever. Hunted by the Gods and even by man. But I won’t die, I’ll just perish till eternity.
My lips parted, but no words came. He’d carried this… alone.
For years? Centuries? With this pain?
And now, he has more?
“So what’s this new writing?” My voice broke.
His throat worked, eyes closing for a breath before he forced himself to meet mine. “It means what we’ve been doing before doesn’t matter. We’ve had it all wrong the whole time.”
No.
My blood ran cold as I stared at him.
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“The child can only come out of love.”
The word hung heavy, choking me.
Love?
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My heart raced, every nerve in me alive. Would that even work? I haven’t even said those words even though I feel it growing every day.
His large red hand tilted my chin and with my blurry vision, I gazed at his golden orbs.
“Alex….” I paused.
Wouldn’t it be stupid if I asked if he loves me? Would it be ok if I say I love him?
He hadn’t said he loved me, not directly.
I wouldn’t count what he said yesterday. He might have just said that to please me. Because he was jealous of Clifford.
But with everything that had happened.
Everything he had done for me in the past till yesterday- I can’t deny that I felt his actions speak louder than his words.
Something inside me shattered.
What if he actually doesn’t love me? And he is just doing this for his curse. What would happen then?
No child? And he’d remain in his dragon form forever? In pain?
My wolf pushed forward, howling, clawing for him. My body moved before my mind could. I wanted to cup his face but I stopped.
Maybe-
“How can you be soo clueless,” he breathed, pulling me out of my thoughts.
My heart squeezed. Does he think loving him is stupid? Or me thinking he loves me?
Before I could respond, his lips crashed into mine instead.
He groaned deep, grabbing me like he was starving, like he’d break without me. His mouth devoured mine, desperate and bruising. The chain at his wrist rattled as he pulled me into his lap, his heat searing into me.
“Alexander-” I gasped against his mouth, but he swallowed my words, his hands already roaming, pressing, claiming.
“I can’t stop this time,” he growled into my neck, teeth scraping, sending fire down my spine. “Don’t ask me
to.”
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I didn’t. I couldn’t. My body arched to him, desperate too.
The cave around us blurred, the purple flames flickering.
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His body burned under mine, his golden veins pulsing, wrapping around my wrists where he held me. He was half–shifted still, horns sharp, wings trembling–but none of it scared me anymore. I wanted all of him.
“Say it,” I rasped, his breath hot against my skin as his lips trailed lower. “Say those words, Alex.”
“I love you, Aqua,” he murmured against my skin.
