“Genevieve, please!” I scream out loud, but her blue and purple body doesn’t respond. Her now gray wings are more still than ever before.
Repeating her name for what feels like a thousand times, I keep begging for her to survive. I keep begging for a miracle that may never come.
“Please come back, please.”
As I dare to open my eyes, everything around us has lit up. Not in flames, but light. The blue grass surrounding us started moving on its own, and for a split second, I felt insane. Something that I had never witnessed before was happening right before my eyes.
Before I had the chance to think, the grass was covering Genevieve, her body buried in the neon grass.
As a melody starts spreading through the forest, I could almost reach for the music notes in the air.
Taking a step back from her, not quite understanding what’s happening, not much time passes before she slowly appears once again, the grass leaving her side. Only this time, the color that belongs to her body was back.
With hands cupping my face, eyes wide, a man can only hope that he has been protected for the first time in his life, with the woman he’s growing to love being brought back to hers.
Chapter 19
Genevieve
Suddenly, I wake up to someone coughing, my senses weaker than ever before.
That coughing irritates me, making my head hurt immediately. My body is cold, freezing, and for some reason, I feel dizzy.
“Genevieve? Genevieve, wake up.” A worried male voice calls my name.
Unable to understand what’s happening, I try to open my eyes from what seems like an odd dream, but I can’t. Everything feels heavy, my whole body feels numb.
“Genevieve, please. Please don’t die.” That dark voice keeps calling my name, his voice so close yet so far out of reach.
“Please..”
Feeling two cold hands gripping my waist, my body begins to lift only to sink onto something softer. And it doesn’t take long before I feel the warmth spread through my body along with a flame of strength.
“We need to be careful from now on.”Is the one sentence my brain decides to focus on.
My eyes fly open and I gasp for air in panic. Eyes darting around, someone holds me too tight for me to move. I look at the person who has their arms wrapped around me, and that’swhen all my thoughts and memories flood back. Ice blue eyes are staring back at me, red cheeks with tears pouring down.
Ector.
“You piece of shit I thought you died! You scared me!” Was the first thing my mouth decided to scream at him, not in anger but in pure fear. The fear of losing someone you hold so close to your heart.
Suddenly, I realize how red his eyes are. It wasn’t the type of red your eyes get when they’re itchy, it was the type of red that made someone instantly worry for someone’s well-being. I look at him in confusion as I ask myself why he’s crying.
I try to remember what happened but most parts are blurry.
The memory of Ector jumping into the water and me diving after him is strong. I remember how I couldn’t breathe, how my body started to instantly hurt and how it started to cramp. I recall how I saw so many of the best memories of my life until everything went black.
“Did I die?” I dare ask the question even though the thought terrifies me, but he doesn’t answer me. Instead, he pulls me closer to his chest and hugs me tighter than he ever has.
“I... I don’t know. I was so scared, I thought I killed you.”
“I thought you were the one dying, how are you still here?” I ask, and at the same time, my eyes fill with tears.
He looks at me like he’s disappointed, but not in me, disappointed in himself.
“I need to show you something,” He says before standing from the ground.
Slowly turning around, it only takes a few seconds before his back is on display. My hand flies to my mouth and tears build up even more than before.
