Reilly Mosswolf & Stella Korazon The silence was deafening. Reilly hadn’t said anything since they’d escaped the estate by the skin of their teeth. A crossbow bolt had torn through Stella’s cloak, but she’d managed to twist out of its path, dragging Reilly down a side street and using narrow passageways known only to the thieves to escape. But escape they had, and she couldn’t figure out why Reilly still felt so tense at her side. Why she could practically see the glare being directed at her, even though his face was hidden in the shadows. It was only when he pulled her to a stop halfway back to the guild, that she began to realise it was fear that had held his tongue. Relief that made his hands shake. “I thought I’d lost you, darling,” he said, crowding her until her back hit the wall of the nearest building, and Stella’s voice died in her throat. “Do you know—? Can you understand—?” Reilly’s voice broke. Choked with tears, and Stella felt her heart pound in her chest because, yes. She did. She remembered how it felt to think he’d been killed... but it was still so new, and so fresh, to have that care directed at her. “I’m sorry,” she whispered, gently lifting a hand to knock back his hood and cradle his jaw, brushing her thumb across the stubble that shadowed his face as she was finally able to meet pitch-black eyes, shimmering with tears he refused to let fall. They held her trapped, but she waited. Letting him see her, hear her, feel her. Letting him remind himself that they’d got away. That they were alive. That she was alive. The frozen moment lasted longer than she’d expected, but eventually, Reilly seemed to collapse in on himself. He dropped his forehead to rest on her shoulder, burying his face against her neck and breathed her in as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders, and wordlessly pressed butterfly kisses of love and reassurance everywhere her lips could reach. Hey there! Do you like my writing? Feel like supporting me so I can write some more? Check out my debut fantasy novel ‘Changeling’. It’s available in Ebook at all your favourite online retailers, and in Paperback, and Hardcover from Amazon. Changeling’s Ebook is 50% off |
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