October and April (Bk 2 Of The Valhireya Series)-rewriting

Epilogue

Cade

After sending our daughter away to live with Luna, I've started rebuilding the city. It's funny how I didn't want to take over Hell, but I was forced to become the king of Valhireya. And yet, what else am I supposed to do?

However, not being next to my daughter is driving me insane, these days. I push everybody to rebuild faster so I can bring her home sooner. When all of this is over, we'll all be a family. She will have a mother to love her, to guide her, that is, if Idalia ever decides to wake up. If not, our daughter becomes an orphan.

I chase away these thoughts that haunt my nights and spend all my days in planning meetings and then my nights curled back in bed next to Aurora. I keep searching for a sign that she might wake up, I keep searching her mind for dreams so I could invade them and tell her to come back to me, but there's only silence.

My energy is slowly fading away, so at some point I'll have to stop trying to invade her mind, because it's draining me. Right now, I only live on the pleasure that I give myself, but that is like a human only drinking water and eating a slice of bread each day. It barely keeps me going.

Pain slowly takes over as my instincts fight my reason. It's excruciating. It feels like sand is running through my veins and into my muscles. The worse part is that I can sense every woman in this castle, in the entire city. I can hear their moans when they have sex at night and it's driving me crazy.

'Please come back to me!" I whisper once again to Aurora as I curl into bed and place my head over her heart. The machine she is connected to beeps once, letting me know there was a heartbeat in that particular moment but I missed it. It so faint that only the machine can trace it. I close my eyes and kiss her cold lips.

The irony is that when we met, she would tell me that I am cold and moody like an October day and I would tell her that she is pure and peaceful like a sunny April day. How things have changed since then.

I kiss her cold lips again and close my eyes.

"I love you and if you don't come back to me, I will gladly die next to you..."