Chapter Forty–Seven
Rayven, a tinkling voice sang to me
Lost to the land of dreams Id succumbed through filled to acknowledge the voice that was calling out to me. Why would I That demandable voice I’d long since lost knowledge of its importance tried to bring me awake,
Rayven, me again. Come to me
No. I rejected the rall, I’d found paradise inside of the dreams plaguing my mind, a world away from pain and heartache. In this place, I was blissfully happy with my parents, Layla forever at my side, and Kadden’s smiles. The five of us were together just the way we were always supposed to none of the anguish the world offered to me. If I listened in the voter calling our to me, as it’d been doing for a while, then I’d be taken from this world.
Rayven, my godling, wake up.
It’s time to wake up and come find me.
I didn’t want to wake up. I didn’t want to find them. Because that meant for me coming out of my fantasy world and returning to realny. I couldn’t stomach going back there, knowing the terrible reales that awaited me in that world. Knowing when I woke up I’d again be condemned to darkness, haunted by a shadowy figure I coudil barely see. There wouldn’t be my loving parents, nor the acceptance of Layla, not even Kadden’s brooding face. All of them had been taken away from me when the bastard kidnapped me from the manor, casting me adrift in this world.
Yet even as I fought against the pull of that voice, the pull towards the world awaiting, I found myself slowly rousing from the darkness. It seemed that enough of the drug had left my system again, bringing me back to the real world. I fought against it, but none of my attempts were any good.
Lawoke around noon.
Slowly coming out of the world of darkness that I’d known for so long. I wondered why my body even tried. To come to only to be confronted with the dark reality I’d lived threw these days, was too cruel of a late to contemplate. I didn’t want to face the lush reality that I’d come to know, 1 wanted to return to the dream world I’d created for myself. Yer seemed that my mind was a glution for punishment, as I found myself drifting
closer to consciousness.
Lying on my back I didn’t even attempt to open my eyes, aware of what awaited for me if I tried. Simply waited there for the moment my kidnapper found my hiding place, and he would. I’d woken some tune ago and realizing I was alone I’d crawled through the opening in the wall. I just hadn’t been comming on the edge of the cliff and my body crashing to the ground below Ird hurt so damned much. Felt like every bone in my body was screaming in pain. So anguished I could’ve sworn 1 felt the woman embrace of a woman, as she sang a liking song I vaguely recognized. A delusional brought on by my injuries.
Awaiting for the moment when I’d slip back to unconsciousness, I was stumped that it never
ever came. Instead, my mind seemed to be strong now, as the drugs had somehow pushed the rest of the way out of my system. And the ground beneath me somehow seemed softer too, like a thiffy cloud laid beneath me. What was going on here? A cool breeze blew in from somewhere in front of me, but in didn’t have the acrid taste of death and decay. It smelt of sunshine, daisies, and the midst of the water’s surface, promises of a breezy day nutside,
What was going on?
A hand reached out as if to steady myself in the realities, only to still as it brushed across a silk surface. What What the hell? My hand continued to smooth out over it to find I hadn’t imagined it, it was really a silk sheet. Pressing clown as if to make sense of what I was feeling the surface wright down, realizing that it was almost a bed. No, it was definitely a bed. I’d woken up this time to find myself lying on a bed, silk beneath me and a soft fur blanket over me. Comforts and luxuries I hadn’t in my time in whatever hovel the bastard took me to, as I hadn’t since the manor.
Desperate to come to some conclusion about what was going on, I pried open eyelids that didn’t want to give. It proved to be more difficult than I’d imagined, itd been so long since I’d had the strength to open them. Slowly the lids fluttered open, only to slain them shut again as the bright light. burned my eyes Goddess, it hurt so damned much. But unable to give in to the show of weakness I pushed thein back open, this time refusing to give in again. As my vision began to clear, the fog lifting from my mind, I noticed the room around me. Surroundings that I would never forget and often dre and about in the shadows of my mind.
It was Kadder’s bedroom
I’m home. I thought.
How?
HOVE
or thadn’t f
fought to speak or
Vaguely I remembered the last time I’d opened my eyes, to fund myself wrapped in the arms of Kadden. At the time I
belarying it was merely a dream to soften the pain. There were many of those. But now, in the face of where I was..could it have been real? Had Kadden rescued me from the bowels of hell and I’d woken up to inily be held within those arms of his! My heart sang at the thought it could’ve been because the look in his eyes proved he cared. There was such sadness and pain in them. As if the thought of what happened to me truly affected humi
Moving aside the blanket weighing my body down I tentatively pushed up in bed, surprised at the show of strength. Even as weak as I felt in that moment, it was nothing compared to how I felt in that dark world. Proof the drugs were being pushed out of my system somehow, undoubtedly administered something to get it out. At this knowledge I twisted my body around and attempted to climb our of the bed, only to crumble to the floor 1 groaned as Had the wood
“My Luna,” a soli voke came. “You douldn’t be out of bed. You are far too weak still to be up on your feet ”
Ignoring the servant who was aglust at any decision. I had no plans to be stuck back in that bed. This thought on my mind I used the edge of
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table to drag me to my feet and anchor me there. Tm okay”
Our sirp. Two,
I collapsed again.
The servant girl panicked again, rushing to my feet. “Please Luna, it’s a miracle you survived your time in the Dark Lands. You need to be in bed
resting, getting strong. King Kadden will not be happy.”
Kadden. I thought. Goddess, how I missed him. Even as cold–hearted and emotionless as the man could be, I ached to be with him again. I didn’t care how weak and pathetic it made me sound, he was the only man who’d ever made me feel whole. Even before the goddess marked us as mates Alplu Kadden touched me, and gave me a sense of purpose. Of love. This is the man who ‘d taken me into his home, lud showered affection that I didn’t deserve, who I idealized for years.
With that thought in the front of my mind, I stubbornly refused to give in to weakness, and I pushed to my feet. Still the servant girl. Nicole I think her name is, protested the decision I’d come to, but I refused to listen to her. I shot her a hard look that couldn’t be denied. “Girlie Im getting out of this room and finding Kadden, you can either help me or get out of my way.”
Obviously, she saw I meant business, Bobbing her head in acceptance of my demands, she came closer and wrapped an armi beneath mine. Even as an Omega she land considerable strength to her, enough to get me to my feet. Together the two of us made our way out of the room, though she was forced to catch me when I started to fall. “You are too weak for this, Luna Von. You should be in bed. Your body needs time to rest and heal”
Tve rested plenty,” was my cunt response. I didn’t want to sleep. Ed been sleeping for days, weeks, hell I didn’t know how long I’d been gone from the manor. Clearly, it’d been a while. After the amount of days I spent languishing in the darkness I had no desire to go back there,
“What the hell” came his angry voice.
I was escorted toward the doorway leading to the veranda, where Kadden was having a meal with the others. Only for the man to shoot straight to his feet when he noticed the woman appearing in the opening Without a thought of his actions, he immediately closed the distance between us and beaded straight for me. I stared up at the man before me, my heart leaping in my chest at the sight of him, after so long.
“Kadden,” I breathed.
Stopping less than a hair’s breadth away from where I stood, large hands came up to cup either side of my face. I burrowed my cheek into his palm. “What is the matter with you, Nicole! She is far too weak to be wandering around. Von needs to be upstairs resting.”
“I’m sorry your Majesty,” Nicole whimpered in pain as she dropped her head, ashamed of her failing him so horribly. “I tried. When I found her on the floor I tried to get her back in bed, but Luna Von refused to listen to reason, I only helped when she left me no other choice.”
“Of course she did,” Kadden snorted as his gaze centered on me, the unpleasant look in his eyes was more than irritated. “You need to rest.”
“Don’t want rest” I want you, I tried to force the words out past the lump in my throat, but couldn’t get them to budge.
He sighed. “Are you hungry?”
I wasn’t but didn’t tell him that
Sighing this time in exasperation, clearly unhappy at my decision, Kadden stepped closer. His arms wrapped around me. “You’re free to go Nicole ”
Purring came from me when Kadden swooped arms around my body and up into the enclosure of his arms, Burrowing my face into the broad chest I’d dreamt about, I luxuriated in the feel of his arms again, I didn’t care if he didn’t love me. I didn’t even care that he didn’t want me. The fact remained is we were finally together again after all these weeks and I couldn’t be happier.
