Page 31 of Lies That Bind
I pursed my lips. “That rival dragon killed Liana’s mate.”
Kohen nodded. “And Onyx’s parents. I know. But I want to help.”
I shook my head. “We can’t.” I peered up at the sky and the two fading figures. “We can’t fly without them.”
“What the hell is going on here?” Jade looked winded. A few leaves were tucked into her long red hair, and her entire left side was covered in dirt. It seemed they got bucked off in a hurry, too.
I sighed. “It’s complicated. Can you give us a minute?”
Jade nodded, pulling out her map. “I’ll plot us a course home.”
The three of them walked away about twenty paces to a flat rock where they could spread their maps, giving Kohen and me some privacy. They began to speak in hushed tones about a way back when Kohen frowned. He was clearly still upset we were not helping Liana and Onyx.
Moving closer to Kohen so that we could not possibly be overheard, I leaned into him. “Kohen, did you see this? How this will end?” I whispered.
He glanced down at my lips and moaned a little. “Stars, I want to kiss you right now,” he whispered back.
I smacked his chest hard, and he caught my fingers, stroking my palm with his fingers. “Focus,” I chastised him but secretly loved that he was seemingly infatuated with me. Knowing Caruso had interrogated him with her power and found him innocent had made me care all the more for him, trust him all the more.
“So long as those lips are attached to that face, I will never focus again,” he said.
Damn. His smooth talking got me hook, line, and sinker. I couldn’t help but grin.
“Have you seen our creatures die or anything horrible?” I asked him.
He shook his head. “In the future, you ride Liana, and I ride Onyx. Same as always.”
I relaxed at that. “So this will probably be okay?”
He shrugged. “Probably.”
He was still holding my fingers, so I pulled them back to my chest before the others could see.
“Except…” he added with a wince, and my whole body tensed.
“Except what?” I asked.
“I mean, I have visions where Liana isn’t around you… Is she dead or just off hunting…? I don’t know.”
My mouth went dry. “Well, if she dies, she can rebirth,” I whispered because that wasn’t something I liked to advertise.
He nodded. “But she could be held captive or tortured…”
“Kohen!” I hissed.
“I’m sorry. I’m just learning that glimpsing snippets of the future doesn’t always make sense in moments like this.”
I scoffed. “Like when you supposedly glimpsed me as your wife.”
It flew out of my mouth before I could take it back.
He went very still. “I shouldn’t have told you that. I don’t want that stuff to interfere with the natural progression of our relationship.”
Relationship? We were in a relationship? Why did that excite me?
“Too late, Kohen, especially for you,” I told him. If he really did see our future, then he knew everything about where this would lead.
He grinned then, and it made my knees weak. This man had become my weakness, which my father would not have tolerated. WhichIshouldn’t tolerate.
