My Sunrise Sunset Paramour (My Midnight Moonlight Valentine 2)

I tried to look, but everything was dark.

“Druella, this isn’t you! Breathe! You don’t want to do this! Calm down!” he yelled.

Why did he sound so far away?

Breathe?

Wasn’t I?

“Druella, I’m going to try to come to you, okay?”

Come where? Everywhere was dark.

I-I needed to stop them, destroy them. I needed to—

“Druella!” Theseus called again, shocking me as his hands touched my ankle like he was pulling me down.

I didn’t understand.

But at his touch, the darkness cleared. My eyes hurt, so I blinked over and over again, trying to see, but there was so much smoke. Squinting, I looked again only to see fire eating its way through the trees on every side for as far out as I could see. Thunder and lightning swirled around me in the gray clouds before striking the ground, only adding to the chaos, burning more things, homes, schools, all of Bymoor set in fire. It was hell, and the proof of it wasn’t the fire or the smoke or the chaos but the ghosts. I didn’t have any other word for them, translucent phantoms, pouring into the world from above with swords of flames destroying everything, everyone.

Like the book of revelation had come to life.

Hell on earth.

“Oh…oh, God.” I gasped in horror. This had to be a nightmare.

“Druella!”

Glancing down, I saw I was hundreds of feet above in the air, and Theseus was holding my ankle like it was the edge of a cliff.

“Theseus!” I reached down to touch him, but I noticed an old leather-bound book now in my right hand when I did.

“I—”

Before he could speak, I heard the screeching of a ghost as it came toward him, its face sunken, its sword above its head, swinging right at his wrist. Theseus let go of me to avoid it, falling to the earth, and it followed.

“No!” I screamed, ready to fight, but it stopped going after Theseus and went back down to the burning earth and began attacking Adelaide!

“Stop!” I screamed at it again, diving down after it.

“What is happening? Stop! Make it stop! Not this! I don’t want this.” What had I done? Regret filled me, and there was nothing I wanted more than to go back.

To stop this.

I needed to stop—

“Her name is Lucy Ming, and she is Taelon Swan’s mate.”

I jumped, startled at his voice and his words. Blinking, I glanced down at Theseus, pinned under me like before, my grip on his shirt. I glanced up to the trees, and they were still trees, not a single sign of fire or smoke. The sky was still clear, not a single cloud.

Getting up off him quickly, I jumped back.

What? Did I just hallucinate? I spun, looking around me once more. But everything was the same as it always was.

When I looked down and saw the book in my hands, I knew it wasn’t just a hallucination.

“Druella?” Theseus called, sitting up from the ground and looking over to me. “I know you are not all right, but listen to me. I’ve watched you all your life, and at your core, you have always wanted peace. To prevent a full war—”