The Kiss That Saved Me (The Tidal Kiss Trilogy Book 2) (67 page)

Suddenly the spinning stops. Everything rights itself in the blink of an eye and I’m hurtling toward something. A hand grabs me and I feel hard muscle against my back as I’m pulled to a stationary upright position. I sigh, relieved. Orion must have caught me.

I look as the whirlpool dissipates before me in the new and murky waters. Orion comes into view. I inhale, shocked as a blade finds itself shoved beneath my throat, threatening to slit my carotid and leave me for dead. My captor speaks.

“And what, in the name of Loch Ness, is a pretty wee lass like you, doing in a place like this?”

END OF BOOK 2

    
CALLIE

I’ve been sat down at the writing desk as the moon has arced across the sky. It’s been a while since Orion’s let me be alone this long, but I know what I have to do and I’m glad of the silence while I do it. I think back to that night as I turn over the last page of the letter that I’m writing, the amethyst fountain pen clutched between my fingers like a sword. Each stroke on the paper is a deep cut to me, but I continue to strike down black markings onto the blank white, marring its creamy purity with knowledge, putting the finishing touches on my story.

The days that followed that night have passed slowly, I’ve regained my strength, we’ve talked with Saturnus, we continue to mourn Atlas, and gladly forget Titus, who was killed in the magical stream of power just as I should have been. We are questioning Azure too, after all her secret agenda is not to be trusted immediately. It would appear that while she did fall in love with Titus (only the Goddess knows how that ever happened) she couldn’t break the most fundamental bond in her life, that bond which she shared with her sister. Starlet had been communicating with her secretly, and together they had manipulated the prophecy so only the mer knew the original version, knew that the sacrificing of the vessel would stop the Necrimad from coming forth while they thought it would cause it. We wonder now if the psirens have noticed that it is not yet present within our dimension, but we’re also worried. Worried about their growing numbers, about their ability to grow, and about our lack of one. The scythe is nowhere to be found, after all it has served its purpose and I wonder if it has turned to sand just like Atlas. It seems I, too, have served my purpose, while I still retain my ability to take the powers of others, I can’t imagine having any higher purpose than what has already passed. I have turned down being a Goddess. There has to be a price for that. The price is life, long and simple and with the man I love, one which I am more than happy to pay. I think I am free, I thought it was over, my life. Now I know it’s just beginning and I’m being left to enjoy the pleasures of Orion and the years that spread before us, years in which we can grow together, learn about each other, and explore the world which I have been so blessed to be part of. I hope one day we can meet again, sit down when you’re grown and I can hear all about your life. I hope too that you know, if nothing else, that you are the reason I’m sure that I’m doing the right thing. I want you to have a world to grow up in; even if that means it’s one I can’t be a part of. I’ve told mom to let you read these when you’re old enough, so please, take care of her and most importantly yourself.

All my love,
 

Calliedile

xxxxxxx

Playlist

1. She is the sunlight- Trading Yesterday

2. If it Ain’t love- Jason Derulo

3. Gabriel’s Oboe- Hayley Westenra

4. War Paint- Stalking Gia

5. Codes- Ellie Goulding

6. Come back to me- Trading Yesterday

7. Goodbye to you- Michelle Branch

8. My last goodbye- Trading Yesterday

9. Kiss the world- Catlow

10. Pour some sugar on me- Def Leppard

11. I’m not dead- p!nk

12. U+Ur Hand- p!nk

13. Centerfold- p!nk

14. Cuz I Can- p!nk

15. The Kill (Bury me)- Thirty seconds to mars

16. Stars- Noctilucent

17. Something New- Noctilucent

18. Sea Of Voices- Porter Robinson

19. Prayer- Hayley Westenra

20. Talking Body- Tove Lo

21. Animals- Maroon 5

22. Don’t need nobody- Ellie Goulding

23. Can’t move to this- Ellie Goulding

24. Extraordianry- Liz Phalir

25. Anything but ordinary- Avril Lavigne

26. Don’t worry about me- Frances

27. Alright- Kinnie Star

28. No Other Love- Heart

29. Daughters- John Mayer

30. Unforgettable- Nat King Cole

31. Isn’t she lovely- Stevie Wonder

32. You got the love- The source & Candi Staton

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ABOUT THE QUEENS OF FANTASY SAGA

Kristy Nicolle's Queens of Fantasy Saga is a collection of 3 trilogies, following the lives of three extraordinary women and their journeys, both personal and fantastical, into three unique but interconnected fantasy worlds. The first trilogy in the saga, 'The Tidal Kiss Trilogy', captures the fantastical underwater world of the Occulta Mirum and its scaly tailed residents as their world, which seemed stable for so long, begins to shift.

The following two trilogies in the series are yet to be announced.

Stay tuned for more information.