ASHER Goddess no...please no...I continued to mutter underneath my breath while I stood beside my mother and Gaston. Mother held onto me, as though I would be her support if Sophia was to say anything bad. And she was right, I ought to be strong enough to hold her in times like this. I was. Howev
SOPHIA I made sure to make my way out of the hospital room holding my heart in my chest. I did not understand what was wrong with me, not in the least, but I knew something was up, something had…changed. It was certainly not the kind of change I wanted. As I quickened my footsteps down the hallway
ASHER To say that I understood anything that had happened in the past ten minutes would be lying to myself. One moment, I saw myself strolling to fields, and wanting to turn around the second I saw Sophia. The next minute, she was in my arms, and I had to summon every ounce of strength in my muscl
"Fine," I replied. "I'll meet with her." Mother's smile broadened, seemed more genuine. "That's my boy." She said, cupping both my cheeks with her palms as she stared into my eyes. "Everything that I do, I do for you. You know that, don't you?" Her warm touch was more than enough to put a smile
SOPHIA "Asher?" Gérard called out, and I turned to Asher. "Gérard?" Why did the both of them seem like they hadn't seen each other in ages? They were inseparable, like bees to honey when we were younger, at least before I had left. Even though I didn't see much of Gérard after Asher's coronatio
ASHER "Can you believe it, man? Sophia? Three boys? Man! I wouldn't have ever thought she had it in her." I heard Gérard say, once Sophia disappeared from our sight. His words dragged me back to the present and I managed a chuckle. "I know right?" He smiled, shook his head, and looked away from m
SOPHIA "Are you certain you want to remain here, Dr Bailey?" The lab attendant, Becca, said to me while she stood in front of the door. "Yeah. I am certain," I started to reply, looking over the electron microscope in front of me again. I needed to look through the results as many times as possibl
ASHER I turned around in that instant, not wanting to look at her for one minute longer. I wasn't sure I would be able to contain everything I felt standing so close to her, especially now that the future of my kingdom depended on it. Sophia was a distraction, one I couldn't afford. It was funny,