Enflame (Insight #6)(90)

Endless moments passed by. Though I could see the people on the streets standing outside, staring at the sky, I could not feel them unless I really focused. They were scared, but it was a blind fear of the unknown, not terrified emotions.

A whisk of warm air produced Phoenix. He took a moment to take in the sky, then turned to face us.

“He doesn’t have it, mate.”

“You’re sure?”

“Positive. He’s weaker now than before. I searched The Realm. It left with us. With whom or where it is, I don’t know.”

“Libby?” Landen asked.

“Wide-eyed and bushy-tailed at 11:10 Chara time. The clock is moving forward.”

“For the moment,” Landen said under his breath.

“Skylynn is a bit weak, but she’ll recover. And your mate, Dane, is whole. Let’s just hope he can handle what he has to face.”

“He will,” I stated blindly.

Phoenix glanced down at me. “You scared the hell out of me, Sunshine. Never do that again, you hear me?”

“Shouldn’t talk about throwing people into the fire so much—they may decide to jump in on their own,” I said with a smirk.

“Not funny,” he said, crossing his arms and letting the flames in his eyes rage for the sake of looking angrier than I was sure he was.

“You got somewhere to be, right?” Landen said to Phoenix as his arms tightened around my waist.

Phoenix’s expression grew grim. “I do.”

“It’s going to work out,” Landen promised.

“We’ll see, mate.” And with that, he vanished.

“Should we help him?” I asked, assuming he was going to the scarf girl.

“He thinks he’s going to say goodbye.”

“Is he?” I asked as a sick feeling settled in my throat.

“I hope not,” Landen murmured.

In that instant, Landen pulled us away. The next thing I saw was our quiet getaway that he’d taken me to the night before. It wasn’t quite as inviting, though. There was no romantic dinner waiting for us, and most of the rose petals had glided away.

He let me go and walked to the edge of the bed, sat down, and leaned forward. I hesitated, taking in his image, how flawless it was, how the stars beaming around him made him look like the king I knew he was.

Focusing on his emotions led me to believe he was worried about me. Slowly, I approached him.

“You know, sometimes things are taken away from us, only for us to appreciate that we had them in the first place...” I said quietly, letting him know that if I really wanted that power back, I would find a way to get it.

He glanced up at me.

“I’m fine...I can bring it back…I know I can,” I promised.

When I reached him, he opened his arms, pulling me to him. An instant later, I was lying in his arms in the center of the bed.

“I’m just mad I wasn’t there,” he said quietly.

“Where did you go, to stop who was hurting Skylynn?” I guessed, wondering if that was what took him away from us.

“To help Charlie...Draven...I should have been faster. Seconds could have changed everything.”

“No good deed goes unrewarded. I’m not upset, and I don’t want you to be. We all walked out of that Realm. We did everything we set out to do. I’m going to breathe that in for a minute or two before I worry about what is to come.”

As my gaze moved to the sky, I wondered why I could see the planets so clearly in Esterious moments before.

He leaned over me. His hand hovered over my chest, calling my medallion away from my skin. A small flame appeared beneath it. The huge illusion did not appear, but through the black glass you could see the dual universes. The dark one now had light veining through it. Not much, but you could see it.

“See? We won,” I whispered to him.

His hand clasped the medallion, putting out the flame and cooling the metal. His eyes found mine.

“I love you so much, it hurts,” he said with an ache in his voice.

I reached to cradle his face with one hand. “Glad I’m not the only one who feels that way,” I said so quietly that I barely heard my words.

His eyes rapidly moved across mine, then he slowly lowered his lips to mine. I took in the hum of his energy, savoring every movement of his soft lips.

I had no idea how damaged I was, how damaged Madison was, but I knew one thing: with souls like Landen and Drake to protect and love us, we would not be broken for long – and God help the evil we were fighting when we regained our strength once more.

Special note to the reader:



This is not the final book in the Insight series, however this series is a part of a 'Web of hearts and Souls,' where each of my series connects as one large story.



Rivulet is the first book in a brand new series, where you will find the new characters this novel presented.



Thank you so much for reading these daydreams of mine!




Please enjoy the preview of Rivulet.





Chapter One




When death shadows your path, you only have one viable defense—adrenaline. All the rage, panic, and jealousy coursing through my veins vanished instantly. There was no room for such emotions. There was no choice between fight and flight—I’ve always been a fighter.