Snow Heart (31 page)

“I never told you,” he said, laying his head down onto the bed. “I never got to tell you how I felt about you.” Alric slid his fingers through the ebony strands of his hair.

Alric lifted his head and looked into her face. His eyes softened a bit. “I wanted to go to the city with you, just the two of us. Together we could have traveled anywhere in the world.”

He folded his arms on the bed and placed his head there. “I should have told you as soon as I could have. As soon as I realized how I felt I should have told you.” Tears shuddered from his eyes and pitter-pattered onto the bed.

Before Alric could wipe his tears and hide away from that final brutal pain, Nieves’s hand twitched. His head shot up with alertness. “Nieves?”

Life Could Be A Fairytale, Couldn’t It?

Zeit placed a firm hand onto Alric’s shoulder.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Arvalee Knight is an enthusiastic writer and hermit-in-training. On occasion she leaves her house in the middle of the woods for a life of mild adventuring.