Deciding Skies (Fate's Intent Book 2) by April Bowles Page B

Adele said as she started to get up.
    “Wait, you don’t think they should know?” I got up after her and really thought this was something they should hear.
    “I don’t know if that was real. I mean, I don’t even want to think that it could have been.” Adele was taking quick breaths. She couldn’t seem to hold still and it only seemed to make things worse.
    “All right. Come on.” I led her out of the bathhouse. “I think you’ve had enough drama for one night. It’s time you relaxed.” Adele was breathing more slowly but heavily and just nodded as I brought her out into the room and got her back in bed. “Better?”
    She was just had that look still plastered on her face and turned her head to me. “We have to stop them.”
    “Stop them from having sex? Are you kidding me?! We won’t be able to do that but it does mean that they have to have sex first if your vision is true and that would mean Darius could survive her.”
    “We don’t know that. I didn’t see him either.”
    “Well, who do you think the other kid belongs to, hmm?” Just to get her worry all out at once.
    She immediately gasped. “Zayden, we can’t let that happen! It’d be—it’d be—”
    “Look, Love. Did you ever think that you were in that place away from everything because you were hiding?”
    “Hiding from what?”
    “The world. It’d be a place where we could be together. Away from war.”
    “Zayden, no. I wouldn’t want it to come to that. Hiding from everyone? It just seems—no. I couldn’t let that happen.”
    “But you’re fine with having my son and never letting me see him?”
    “Of course not but I can’t just walk away from my life and neither can you.”
    “Are you going to worry about this the whole time you’re here?”
    “I’d rather not.” She turned over and faced the edge of the bed.
    I smiled while I moved in behind her and put my arm around her. “Then you won’t. I’ll be here to help to make sure of it.”
    “Thanks.” Words were still between us and we were finally getting the rest we both needed or so I thought. She seemed restless and proved it by saying my name in that worried way. “Zayden?”
    I let out a long breath just wanting to go to sleep but her voice seemed troubled again. “Yes, Love? What is it?”
    “I think maybe I shouldn’t stay in here tonight.”
    I sat up a little and rubbed my eyes, trying to focus them better for the conversation. “Why? I thought you said you would.”
    “I know that but what if—”
    “Don’t worry about it, Love. If my father finds out, I’ll handle it. You’re not going to get in trouble.”
    “Yeah, I seriously doubt that.”
    “This isn’t really about everything else, is it?”
    “No, of course not. I’m trying to forget about that.”
    “All right. Good but aren’t we together?”
    She sighed and turned more so she was facing me. “It’s not going to be for that long.”
    “Aren’t we together?”
    She sighed again. “For now.”
    “Then you’ll stay—for now and I’ll deal with my father if it becomes a problem.”
    “Are you sure?”
    I kept the smile on my face and stroked my fingers down her arm. “I’ll always be sure about this.”
    Adele didn’t get the chance to smile back. There was a knock on the door. She sucked a quick breath in and turned her eyes towards it.
    “Relax. I’ll get it this time. You just stay right there and don’t even think about moving.”
    Adele shrank herself down in the bed so the blankets were covering all views of her face. It probably made her nervous that maybe it was my father checking up on us and she laid completely still, trying not to even breathe too loud.
    I smiled to her worried reaction but walked over to the door and opened it anyway.
    “Good evening, your majesty.”
    I saw the smile of a familiar face and lost mine, stepping out of the room quickly and held the door closed behind me. “Crysta. Hi—ah—this is a little awkward. I must have