Forever And A Day
A House Celestia Novella
By Stephanie Brooks
Copyright © 2013 Stephanie Brooks
All Rights Reserved
“This is House Celestia, love.
Trust me things can always
get worse.” ~ Cy
Prologue
“Desi,”
the voice ruptured the silence in the synthetic darkness of the Celestial
Cavern’s hallway like a tire iron to the back of her head. “Come away now. You need to rest.”
Turning
her head she gives Cy a scathing glance.
Like he’s one to talk. Neither of
them have moved from their posts outside North’s – now Gen’s – chambers since
they brought the near-comatose woman home.
Whether Cy remains out of guilt or some misplaced sense of duty or
whatever she isn’t sure.
But
that’s her friend inside that shrine to her lost love.
And she’s
dying inside, a little more every day.
Desi is
too, her heart is breaking and bleeding right along with Gen’s.
Whatever
Cy feels, Desi’s guilt and her fear for her friend’s sanity and life are very
real and very strong. None of this ever
would have happened if it wasn’t for her.
Gen would be snuggling and canoodling with her wolf-shifter lover and
maybe making a little Prince or Princess for her people if not for Desi. She’d be whole and happy and loved, something Desi’s wanted for her
friend ever since she met her.
No one
has ever deserved life, love, and happiness more than her Gen.
And
instead of getting it her friend, her heart-sister, is fading. Dying inside from having North’s soul torn
away from her.
“Come
away Desi.” Cy says, a smile beginning
to cross his handsome face. His shifter
hearing is picking up something from the chamber behind them. Something he never thought to hear ever
again.
“What
the fuck are you smiling about?” His
brother is dead for mercy’s sake.
“Ssh. Listen close.” He takes her hand and tugs her next to the
door. “Can you hear it?”
Humoring
him she presses her ear up to the stone slab they call a door only to jerk away
in shock at what is coming from inside the room.
“Is
that?”
“It’s
laughter, Desi.” Whooping he lifts her
up and spins her around. “Both of them are in there laughing. I don’t know how or why, but he’s back, love.” Dropping her back down to her feet Cy steals
her mouth in a scorching kiss.
His
brother’s back.
Forever And A Day Coming in October from author Stephanie Brooks!
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