Page 166 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

“Of course.” Rion frowns, looking at Luka. “Can you see her?” he asks him.

“No… but I can sense her… She’s here. I’m telling you.” Luka stays frozen in his spot, staring right in my direction, while the others look around the room.

“I don’t see or sense anything out of the ordinary,” Kai tells him.

“It’s almost as if…” My heart picks up speed as Luka takes a step closer to me. The guys freeze, following Luka’s every move.

This isn’t real, and they can’t see me. This is just another cruel trick my mind is playing on me. They’re gone, and nothing I dream or hope, or wish will change that.

When Luka is a couple of feet away, he frowns, looking around me as if trying to figure something out.

I desperately want to reach out and touch him. To run my hand through his beautiful white-blonde strands. To trace the small scar above his eye. To drag his lips to mine for a taste. To hold him tight and never let him go.

Just as the thought leaves my mind, something inside me tugs.

Luka’s eyes widen, his eyes no longer staring around me, but looking right at my face

“Kiarra.”

He can’t… This isn’t…

The guys all freeze, their eyes widening as they also look right at me.

“Princess?” Glancing over to Axel, his anger is now replaced by shock and a glint of hope in his wide eyes.

I know this isn’t real. I know it, but my naïve, broken heart holds on to whatever this is. Whether a dream or some twisted afterlife full of wishes and hopes.

“Baby?” I glance at Jax, his face is an open expression full of sadness and relief.

“Talk to us. Please.”

I open my mouth to speak but only manage to mumble,

“Dream.”

“No. It’s—”

A sharp, violent pain shoots through me, making me gasp and bend forward. “Nooooo!”

They all reach for me, but I’m yanked backwards. I hear Luka calling out to me just as I’m pulled from the dream and back into the vast blackness.

CHAPTER 7

KAI

She was here. Kiarra was right there. I stare at the spot she stood before being ripped from us once more.

“Did I—” Axel starts.

“No, you didn’t imagine that. It was her. We all saw her,” I tell him.

“How?” Jax asks me, but I have no answers for him, not understanding it myself.

“I don’t know.”

“Do you think she can do it again?” Axel asks.

“Maybe?” I tell him, unsure and not wanting to get his or any of our hopes up. Kiarra looked shocked that we could see her. “It didn’t look like she knew where she was.”

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