Unexpected: Forever His (Book 1)

Chapter 19: Not the Same

*****I just love this picture. Dante and Alexander would only bow to one, so it fits.*****

My body jerked with the entrance of oxygen and had it not been for the extreme pain in my left shoulder, I would have jumped to my feet. Instead I just opened my eyes and adjusted them to the light and my surroundings. I was in a white room that seemed cooler than I preferred and I shifted uncomfortably so that I could get more of the blanket over me.

"Let me help you, Kayla." Dante's voice was heavy with sleep and I glanced over as he stood and pulled the blanket up over me to my neck. "The healer insists on keeping it cooler in here so the environment will be sterile."

"Healer? You have one here? I thought they were almost nonexistent now."

Instead of sitting back down in the chair that was beside the bed, he sat down on the bed beside me. His closeness made me want to draw nearer to him and it all at once brought back memories of the beach and my vision.

I gasped as I remembered every detail from Dante's words in the Ancient tongue and Adelaide's Seer prophecy. I gasped for air as the memories hit me like a tidal wave. "Dante......I...," I coughed.

"Kayla, what is it?" The door opened then and I heard scurried feet hitting the floor. As instantly as my attack had come on, it vanished and I looked up at the man who was obviously the healer. "She will be fine now, My Liege."

"I never doubt your abilities, Gandit. You have no idea how valuable this service was to me."

"You might be surprised what I do know about the Luna, Sire. The purest of queens she will be. Till again my services you need, I am your servant." With that he left and I found that my pain was lessened enough that I could sit up, which I did.

I looked up and saw Dante staring at me. I still had so many questions. He had told me they would be answered, but that would have to wait. Something had stolen the importance of those questions and until I could see him and remind him of the prophecy his mother had been the seer of, I wouldn't be able to rest. It was the reason why I had the vision. I wasn't a seer. I had to be the one to make him remember. It nagged at me the reason why.

Dante cleared his throat and I looked up at him. "You're strangely quiet, Kayla. I expected that you would be more inquisitive when you awoke."

I nodded. "I know you will answer all of my questions when I ask them, but when I was...asleep..." I used the term loosely because I wasn't sure I was asleep. It had been more of a spiritual limbo for me. "I had a vision."

Dante looked down at me with furrowed eyebrows. "You're not a Seer, Kayla. A vision of what?"

I shook my head. "The purpose of my vision was to remind Alexander of something. It's imperative. You have to help me get into contact with him." I glanced down at his pocket where I was sure his phone was and I heard him sigh.

"That won't be necessary. I called him last night and alerted him of Corrina's appearance and your injury. He will be here within the hour."

I sat up further and realized that the aching in my shoulder was all but gone and although it was sore, I could work around it. I lifted my legs over the side of the bed and Dante wrapped his arm around my waist and lifted me up. I was wearing a sleeveless shirt and a pair of my stretch flair jeans and I shivered as I realized someone at some point had changed my clothes. "I will always take care of you, Kayla. It is my duty to you. Do you understand the Ancient tongue? Did any of what I said to Corrina last night make sense to you?"

I shook my head. "I knew it was the Ancient tongue, but I've never been versed in it. No one in Redwood spoke it anymore by the time I was old enough to learn. My mother had been the last."