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"A that ic had started to escape in a desperate attempt to find Kiran's I was disoriented and frustrated and I had lost control of the ic that so desperately wanted to find its soul h, he needs you, Eden; he will die without you" She pushedhis bedside and hovering over his unconscious body My fingers, absent it out froe again, the hurt and pain, the agony and despair began to flow like a river froic was co, e electricity in sweet reunion as if it aiting for this hts of vengeance or unconcerned with deserved hatred betrayed me silently and I was powerless to stop it

"I haven't coivably tu down my cheeks "I've come to kill him"

She took a step back froht I couldn't take ly, silently screa thein the world

I froze in place, unable to think, unable to breath Kiran's cold, weak hand slipped without warning into

"It doesn't matter why you've come," he whispered with a strained, husky voice, "you're here That is all I need"

Chapter Eighteen

"Don't touchfaster, but still I did not pull ers from his

He opened his eyes, with their aqua brilliance as bright as ever, and held ht through the open balcony doors His touch paralyzed azed atI stopped breathing I stopped living I stood next to him a prisoner, captivated by an irrational and hateful love

A sharp knock on the door jerkedhis andon the door broughtbolts that Titans on the other side of the door waited hungrily to drag me away and crucify olden triht in there?"

She looked at me, panicked She so desperately wanted me to save her cousin that she couldn't bear to have me taken away, but I threatened to kill hi back and forth between Kiran and er voice, "assure the is fine, and that you need Talbott" When she did not led to sit up in his bed "Amelia, now," he commanded and she obeyed

I h corner of Kiran's bed, hidden behind a long, dark curtain Ahtened her dress and then opened the door just a crack She pro was fine, that Kiran ake and that he needed Talbott and no one else

The Guard, shocked by her news, did not question her instructions He left immediately to fulfill her request and she shut the door behind hiainst it

"So you've coer yet

I moved from behind the curtain to face him He was visibly better in the seconds it had taken for A, his face less pale and he was sitting up strongly in bed

"I came to finish the job, I was under the i," I stated flatly A paranoid feeling nagged at my neck that this was a trap

"Ironic, that if you would have stayed away you would have succeeded," Kiran smiled at me, his lips were dry and cracked, but his old mischievousness was still there

"I will still succeed," I threatened, taking a step towards hiainst my will I wanted him dead, I wanted to witness the end of hiic stayed wrapped in mine; it suffocated my willpower and drowned my purpose

"It would be easier for us if one of us were dead It would be easier to keep living, to keep breathing," he reached out toto lose all self-control

"It will be easier when you're dead, easier to accoeance forhis with firm resolve

"Then do it," he tipped his chin upwards in equal defiance "Kill hting to reign into keep control

"Anxious to die? Eden, I a left forI aain, I am hollow"