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Chapter Fifty-Seven
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2025-03-11 18:00:04"I was with Erik, kissing." I pause, and look at Larkin, who is glaring at me, but not like he's mad at me. I can tell where the irritation is pointed towards. "It came up that it was my first time... kissing." He growls again and looks away. "And I happened to ask how many partners he'd had. I didn't know that he was the one who kept the species going." I look down, fiddling with my fingers. "I don't really know why I ran. It just... hurts. I guess. To know everyone I had come across so far could have slept with him. Meanwhile, he was my first kiss." I roll my eyes at myself and clench my fists. This was a different world, with different rules. I shouldn't be so uptight.
But I can't help it.
I was raised around Mann, as they called them, and Mann liked to at least pretend to be loyal.
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Larkin is leaning against a tree outside, staring at the ground, I'm assuming listening to us bicker inside."You ready?" He asks, smiling softly at me. I nod and follow after him. At least he didn't make me walk in front. And at least he hadn't slept with the whole town."What are you showing me?" I ask as he guides me into the trees. He makes a humming noise but doesn't answer."How have you and your fated been getting along well? Besides the obvious." He asks instead, walking ahead of me and holding tree branches out of my way. I think for a moment."I don't think he's who you want to talk about." I play with the ends of my hair. He laughs, deep and rich sounding. I got that
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How could a man this large treat me so delicately? Even as Larkin towered over me, totally covering my body with his own, he didn't lay on me. He didn't grind his hips into me, and his hands didn't grab at my thighs.He gently sampled the taste of my lips, so, so, softly."You taste like dewdrops." He whispers, and then backs away, returning to his spot beside me. I lay there for a second, staring at the sky, collecting myself."Why did you do that?" I finally sat up, moving my hair so it provided me with a security curtain between myself and his carefully watching eyes. Guilt was already flooding my body. I had been with Erik so recently, and now I was kissing another man. Who was I to preach about loyalty?"Becaus
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Larkin nods. "Now my people do not want to mingle with Mann. We tend to live for a very long time, longer than even Alva, and we have third and fourth generation people left from when Mann originally turned on our goddess.""Wait, you know about that?" He nods again."We all have different history books. The Alva's is a bit more... polished. Cuts out the dirty truths. But we know how Sanju was betrayed by the Mann she loved, and how she brought them here as her slaves. How she forced them to breed so she could work their children to the grave as penance for what was done to her people. We have both hurt each other, and we see no good coming from returning to their world. It seems too risky. After all we've done to each other, there is no way there can be peace."I stayed sil
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"Okay." Is all I say to Larkin. I have so much more in me though. I wish we could've spent more time together. I wish I could've known you better. I wanted to know what he looked like in the morning, and what he was scared of, and what he loved. I wanted to meet his siblings and learn about his life here. But I guess we were skipping all of that. We were going from epic, star crossed lovers, to strangers.In just a second.I hope we're together, in another life.He doesn't say anything, just walks off back towards where we came. I stand there, my heart beating in my chest, my blood flowing in my ears, and tears burning at my throat.That hurt, I can't lie.I say once again, I've never had a boyfriend, or a whatever the hell Larkin was to me. So, I'd never had to deal with letting someone like that go.It fucking hurt.I let a sob escape my lips and fall back against a tree, sliding down it and burying my face in my knees, sobbing like a child. I hated that in the end, we just ended u
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"You saw, yes?" I nod, walking closer to the men. "Would you like to try?" I flick my eyes up to him quickly then, laughing a little. "I'm serious." He certainly looks it. I squat down in front of the balancing men without answering him, looking at the streams of light connecting their fingers to the earth below them. This man's light was green colored, this one was light blue."It goes with the elements they can control." Erik has squatted down with me. "Tye here," he pokes the man with the blue light coming from his finger, "can manipulate ice. He channels it from the core of the world, and therefore, levitates." I tilt my head a little at the floating man. "Want to try?" He asks again."I can't do that." I point to the men. Erik laughs."Don't be silly. I don't want you to do that." He stands, and I follow suit. "Men." Erik booms. Their eyes open, and they listen, still floating. "If any of you drop my goddess, you will be fed to the boars for dinner." he grins then, crossing his a
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"Are you tired?" I look away from Reni and the other chatting Alva and to Erik, who is looking me up and down like he's checking for injuries.I shrug. "I guess." He ushers me towards the platform and behind the half wall, and sure enough, there is a large nest of clothes and animal pelts.He kneels down then on one knee and pats his bent one with his hand. "Give me your foot." I comply, watching him curiously as he starts removing my shoe. I can hear his men laughing a few feet away, but I can only focus on his gentle fingers untying the soft leather strings. "The other." He says once he's slid it off and set it aside. This foot is the one that still bears his anklet, and I saw him notice right away. "You still wear it." He says as he unties my shoe. I nod, even though he isn't looking at me. "Has anyone told you of its meaning?" He looks up at me, pulling my shoe off as he does. I shake my head, feigning ignorance. No one did tell me its meaning, I just happened to overhear it. He s
