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Solar Midnight: Midnight Sun Reimagined (Life and Death, Book I) by beyondthedawn
Books » Twilight Rated: T, English, Supernatural & Romance, Beau S., Edythe C., Words: 224k+, Favs: 59, Follows: 36, Published: Dec 26, 2020 15Chapter 28: ETERNITY
Archie had seen the moment it would finally be over-just a few more hours, hours that I knew would seem to stretch on for years for Beau.
Just after dark, our journey home was over. I carried him into the house and sat with him in the big room. We left him in his bloodstained jeans, but changed him out of his vomit-and-blood soiled shirt. He now wore a pale blue shirt that belonged to Earnest.
Over the last few hours of waiting, we kept up an endless stream of stories. Carine sat on the ground beside us and told the story about Julie Black's family-how her great-grandmother and confidants had actually been werewolves. She told him about the treaty, how she promised them she would never bite another human. We would never set foot on their land, and they would keep secret what we were while we resided here.
Jess filled him in on her backstory after all. Like Beau, she had lost her family, too. She told him how Mario had stolen her without warning and turned her. She talked for a long time about the army she belonged to, a life of carnage and death, and how she eventually broke free with Petrina. She talked about the day she and Archie met.
Earnest filled in the details about his human life. He told of how his first wife had a sickness of the mind, and how her alcoholism eventually made her so unstable that she jumped off a cliff in a drunken rampage with his little daughter in her arms. He was so distraught that he decided there was nothing left but to follow after them in death. He spoke of his own transformation experience, and how he awoke to find Carine waiting there for him when it was over-a nurse he recognized from a happier time in another place when he was just a young man. A nurse who hadn't aged at all.
Eleanor told him the bear story, and how she'd believed Royal was an angel taking her to heaven. When the pain came, she thought she'd gone to hell. She also filled in the details about Victor. He was long gone, as far as we could tell. Charlie would be safe. For all we knew, he'd swum straight out into the Pacific and on to another continent.
I was surprised when Royal volunteered his own backstory. He told Beau about a life consumed with vanity, with material things, with ambition. There was a girl named Rowena, the only daughter of a powerful man-exactly what kind of power this man wielded, Royal hadn't entirely understood-and how Royal had planned to marry her and become heir to the dynasty. How the beautiful daughter pretended to love him to please her father, and then how she had watched when her lover from a rival criminal syndicate had Royal beaten to death, how she'd laughed aloud the whole time. He spared no details about the revenge he'd gotten. Royal was the least careful with his words. He talked at length about what it cost him, and how none of this was worth what he'd lost.
I may have been the only one who knew this about Royal, but he never was entirely honest-maybe even with himself-about how much he loathed the second chance at a life Carine created had for him.
"Eleanor," I whispered at the conclusion of his venting. He growled at me and then left the room.
Archie searched on his laptop, trying to determine where he had been kept in his human life.
Beau spoke for the first time in a long time while Archie was researching. "Am I dying?"
"You're changing, Beau. I promise it will be over soon."
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