Soul to Soul

Chapter Ninety-One - Parting is such Sweet Sorrow.

Eve Chambers...

As I lay in bed with Lilith watching more Grey's Anatomy it suddenly felt something inside of me was snapped in half, almost like something was being yanked out of me – it was so sharp and sudden that I had let out a grunt of pain and my jerk reaction was to reach out to Andrei but the moment I opened the connection, his voice flooded through me, and in an instant I knew something was very, very wrong.

"Eve, you have to listen to me, we are here but something has happened, Alex has been...he's not...Evie, I am so sorry, Luna, but he isn't going to make it!" The grief and regret in Andrei's voice had captured my attention instantly.

Was he telling me that Alex was dying?

"That is exactly what I am telling you. There were these beasts waiting for us when we stepped through the portal and they attacked, we were almost done taking them out when Alex got injected with their poison and there is no cure from what Kevin told me!"

My heart stuttered in my chest – I swear it actually stopped for a moment. Fear and dread collided, making a potent venom inside of me. So, I did the only thing I could, I talked to him through the mind-link that Andrei set, and Andrei told me the words that Alex said in response to my words. It was a fucked-up way to say goodbye and I hated that I couldn't be there at his side, but I tried to take small comfort in the fact that I would see him at take-in when Lilith and my dad would welcome him officially to Hell and assign him to whichever sector that he was to spend the rest of his eternity.

Andrei informed me that Alex was gone after a few moments of silence. And I fell apart. Slamming the mind-link down before he could hear my utter devastation.

Grief unlike any I have ever felt slammed into my heart so hard and fast that I couldn't seem to catch my breath. I clawed at my chest as despair clutched me tight in its arms like some fucked up arms of comfort and refused to show mercy. Tears tracked down my cheeks and Lilith glanced at me and instantly, the alarm painted her beautiful features, "what's wrong, little Eve?" She asked, obviously concerned.

"My Vamp-Vampire is de-dead!" I exclaimed as it truly felt like something inside me was missing – as if it had evaporated just like Alex had. A part of my soul, maybe? Was that even possible?

"Kevin?!?" Lilith looked almost panicked, but my mind moved on from why she would look so panicked at the idea of it being Kevin, as my heart constricted even more.

"No-no not Kevin...Alex-" God's it hurt to even say his name.

This is all my fault. Alex would never have even been here if it weren't for me. My sweet Vampire had come to get me; to set me free from what he perceived to be a threat at the hands of the King of Hell, and it had gotten him killed. I should have just told them about the development with Lucian – maybe if they had known that the Devil was in fact my father, they wouldn't have rushed to get here to save me and then Alex wouldn't be lying dead. I tried so hard to suck air into my lungs, but I was struggling to focus enough to regulate my breathing.

How am I meant to go on without him?

What am I going to tell his family?

I don't want to make an enemy of the Tepes' not after all the things that Alex had told me about them. They were ruthless and I feared that they would blame me when the truth was there was no way that he could ever make me feel anymore guilty than I was already making myself feel. But mostly, I was just heartbroken.

"Lil' we need to go, there has been a death near the limbo-" Lucian burst into my room, taking one look at me before he was across the room and cradling me in his powerful arms before I could even register what was happening, "what's wrong, little Eve?"