Chapter Four Hundred and Fifteen

Lilith's POV

Abyss, I’m not sure how much more of this I can take. I feel weak. My head is killing me! I sulk my headache splinters down my spine.

Literal shooting pains exit the base of my head like iced fire through my nerves.

Not long now, Lil. Our souls are separating. I feel it, I know you do too, she says sorrowfully.

Is that what that is? I ask her.

Let’s concentrate on something different. That day, Lil. Go back to that day again!

So I do, summoning that day in the kitchen with Khai as he tried his upmost to distract me.

The distraction of making dinner seems to be the key of making me forget that I started this silent argument between Theo and I.

Lora lays in her little basket crib on the counter whilst Khai and I work together to prepare the ingredients to make dinner.

We laugh, cuddle and brush against one another.

Khai cannot seem to keep his hands to himself and I'm all for it.

It's precisely the distraction I needed.

And that's how Theo finds us, Khai kissing me from