My bones throbbed. My heart ached.
Ice continued channelling all my feelings, painting them in the sky with glacial lightning.
My legs buckled and I knelt on the arctic tundra I’d caused.
But the storm kept building, building.
Snow continued to fall, sticking to blackened branches until they sagged from the weight.
I kept spiralling.
Panicking.
Unable to stop.
Lucien.
Me.
Snowflake Corp.
Fire and frost and everything.
Everything.
EVERYTHING.
I clutched my head as another storm howled free.
“Make it stop,” I gasped, folding forward and pressing my forehead to the thick snowdrift that’d replaced Lucien’s charcoal. “I don’t know what’s happening. I don’t know how to—”
I never got to finish.
Lucien lunged through the blizzard, his bare feet melting everything.
The howling snow couldn’t touch him—kept at bay thanks to his inhuman heat.
Snatching me into his arms, he carried me straight toward the frozen river.
The icy surface shattered as he stepped onto it, allowing him to sink into the water. Hitching me higher into his arms, he waded toward a small divot where the current had made a natural pool—ice instantly melting until steam curled from the surface.
I gasped as he shoved me against a massive boulder blocking the swimming hole from the main current.
And then he braced one arm above me, grabbed my jaw with his smouldering hand, and kissed me.
Chapter Forty-Six
I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS doing but I couldn’t let her break.
I’d almost done that back in the cave.
I’d almost died as the power overwhelmed me.
Iwould’vedied if she hadn’t tried to die first, using the bond to rip me free.
And now...I repaid the favour.
Smashing my lips over hers, I kissed her. Hard.
