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“Carleah—”
“No.” She throws up her hand. “I get it. We promised.” She pauses then meets my gaze. “Lacrae took Shadow to the elves,” she says. “And at least one of them should have been back days ago.”
“They’re missing?”
“Lacrae promised he’d send Shadow back to me even if the elves needed some convincing.”
“Then where is he?”
“Either he is keeping him from me or—”
“Something happened.”
She nods. “I couldn’t sit around, so I started coming out here to train.”
“Why not train with me in the ring? I’m training the others; it wouldn’t seem off.”
“Bowman isn’t going to let me train for a war he is trying to keep me out of, Fort.”
“He never had a problem with it before.”
“That was before he became king,” she spits back.
I take another step closer. “I feel like I can’t breathe without you.”
She turns to me, her impossibly bright blue gaze hardening. “I feel the same.”
“Then why the hell are we staying apart?”
“You tell me. You’re the one who promised to help me find a way and then spent the last three days avoiding me.”
“Because seeing you reminds me that we’re right back to where we started.” I move in closer. “And even though I know what you taste like, what you feel like pressed against me, I can never have the one thing I’ve wanted from you since the beginning.”
“What’s that?” she questions, tears burning in her eyes.
“A future.”
Chapter 5
Carleah
I close my eyes and try to breathe through the emotion clawing its way out of my chest.
A future.
“It’s not over yet,” he tells me.
I open my eyes, surprised to see that he’s closed the distance and stands only a few inches in front of me. So close that I can see the flecks of gold in his eyes. “I want to believe that. Lacrae was supposed to bring the elves here. To show Bowman that we don’t need Soreno to take Navalis back.”
“Your idea?”
“His,” I reply.
Fort reaches up and runs the tip of his finger down the side of my face. Unable to help myself, I lean into his touch even though it’s torment for us both. “Maybe I misjudged the elf after all.”
“You’re not the only one,” I tell him.
“Carleah.”
