Chapter 128 Shadows Of The Forgotten

• Rising bare skin, the golden light of morning seeped through the curtains and warmed twisted sheets. Dysis lay curled against Alexander, her fingers following his lazy patterns of chest, her cheek lying over his pulse. The planet seemed to be silent. Respectable. As though time slowed just for them.
• Protective and possessive in that subtle manner only he knew how to be, his arm hung around her waist. She felt as though she was not preparing for war for the first time in eternity. simply breathing. Just being.
• But that tranquility accompanied a feeling that had crept into her chest over the night and would not go. Her lips opened, reluctance softening her voice to the whisper level.