Blind Love( Completed, Kings Series, Book 4)

Where's she?

(Samuel's POV)

"C'mon, Di. Let's get out of here." We cautiously got up and retreated. One step, two steps... We were almost there. I looked back, the entrance was swarming with the blackness. More shadows were getting in. I still didn't know who had let them in. We pressed our backs on the wall, moving sideways like a crab. "Hold this at them," I said, touching her medallion. "Like a shield."

I couldn't help but crunch my face as the wall nudged the raw flesh that was still healing. Though my burn was still hurtful, her blood was doing the trick and I was getting better by the minute.

What had I been thinking? This would go down in history as the most stupid thing I'd ever done. And then I remembered being tied like an imbecile a few hours ago and I couldn't decide on the ranking. What the hell was happening to me?

"Okay," she said. She'd got the idea and we could hear the screeching at the entrance as the light from the medallion hit the shadowy forms. It was such an innocuous-looking light, a pure violet reflected from its shiny surface like it had harvested millions of lilies in its being, yet such power radiated off from it that I could feel it in the depths of my being. Can one's soul shake with elation and endless bliss? That's how it felt like. In the middle of a freaking war, my soul was orgasming. My own violet rejoiced, feeding on this pure energy, but also feeding it in return. A weird thing was unfolding here, that was for sure. The cords that braided my violet to Diana's were so thickened, I wondered how we could even move separately as two beings.

"Where are we going?" she whispered when we started putting some distance to that devouring blackness. I ignored the continuous screams coming from the kitchen. I could do nothing for them at this point. I still didn't know how to reverse the possession. That was the only thing that I still needed to learn. How did one come across such information?

"Out. We're going out. I'm not possessed. I doubt I can be with that medallion protecting us. That means, no more loops."

"I don't know anymore whether that's a good or bad thing," she said.

"Neither do I, baby. We'll learn together." I squeezed her hand.

I was not surprised to feel the breeze rushing to my face as we headed for the gate. It was wide open. The point of entry. The point of doom. The point of return. The point of freedom? Maybe. We were about to find out.

It felt like ages since we had been caught by Alessandro and taken to the Mansion as the king of humans. I held my hands up to feel the brilliant sunlight cascade on my face, I could see the white puff of my breath move in circles despite the face of the sun. It was cold. But, the cold felt good. I breathed it in like a starving kid. I'd been in the loop for 4 long days, never going out, encapsulated within the confines of the Mansion, or should I say, trapped within the walls of three, at max, four rooms. Out of those, Di's bedroom had been my favorite. I couldn't wait to make that bed and her a constant in my life.

Diana was feeling the same way, I could hear her large intakes of breath. The medallion had calmed down. There was no trace of what had happened back in there. Its luminescence was gone. Its power was now dormant mocking our sanity. Had we imagined the whole thing?

Nope, our violets were still united. Thankfully, my fears were allayed. We were not like two escapee prisoners chained to one another at the ankles, making the other's life hell. I didn't feel the tug of the violet ropes stretching between us as each one of us moved, the whole thing was surely imaginary, yet it was not. It felt so real. It felt like Diana and I were irrevocably bonded. I waited for a few seconds for that to sink.

Was I happy with the news?

Heck yeah! The stubborn woman couldn't take off and leave me. She couldn't choose another. I trusted the threads to shake her, bring her to her senses like a recoiling rope should she even try.

She was mine.

"Let's just keep moving," I urged her.

"I remember this path," she said as excitement whooshed from her voice.

I doubted that meant anything. Last time we were here, we'd circled endlessly just to end up here. Would the fates allow us to leave here?

The leaves rustled beneath my feet, the forest had come alive with the dawn, the woodland was not silent, it was an orchestra playing the finest symphony. Birds sang in lulls and bursts, the air danced to a humming wind, the twigs, branches, even the roots of the trees shouted their existence as they whistled along. It was an eerie occurrence.

Walking on a blanket of golden sunlight was not one of my worst experiences. Every step took us away from a world that did not exist. Away from the loop. Away from the shadows. Yet I couldn't help but be aware of the tugging of my heart. I was agitated, why? I didn't know.

Hours passed in silence, the unknown had choked all the words.

Soon an unnatural mist swirled around us, painting each rock, each tree, each leaf, each living and breathing thing around us into a baby powder color of smoke.

"What do you see?" I asked Diana. She was our eyes.

"Nothing pretty much. I can't even say whether we are back or not. I can't see an inch ahead of me. Is this natural?"

There was nothing natural about any of this. The medallion was silent, too.

"Can we rest a bit?" she asked wearily. "Just for a second. I don't feel so well."

"Are you okay?" I stopped her. But, it was the sound of her body falling on the ground which made me freak out. "Diana!" I shouted. And, then I knew I was falling, too.

Slowly, like a leaf, cast away from its bough with the wind. Vulnerable, delicate, falling to the unknown.

It was all black. I was surrounded by a suffocating blackness. I wanted to extend my arms like a starfish and disperse the blackness away. I couldn't do it. There was not a trace of light anywhere. At least, not one that I could see. Where was I? Where was Diana?

"Diana!" I shouted until my voice was hoarse. I was alone.

What had happened to the threads that held us together?

Where was the bond? Damn the Gods! Damn the moon Goddess.

"Diana!"

Sorry, this is a bit short, I'll have more for you tomorrow.

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