Chapter 85 Rosalie, Please Come Back To Me
**Rosalie‘s POV
This had to be a dream.
That was what I told myself as I looked into his eyes, which shone with a depth of emotion I had never before seen.
There was no way in the world that I was awake and this was real. He couldn‘t really be standing here, in the shadows in the garden outside of my cottage near Soren‘s house. There were simply too many guards for even someone of his skill to have managed to have gotten in here.
And what had he said?
“I‘m not here to hurt you.”
It could not be Ethan, I told myself. I needed to shut off my crazy emotions and wake up.
“I‘m sorry, but you‘ve got the wrong person.” Please, just go away, I prayed.
I couldn‘t allow myself to be hurt by him, even if it was just a dream.
“I know it‘s you, Rosalie. Come with me!” His voice was trembling.
When had I ever heard him speak like this?
I remained silent. but I knew I wanted to go to him.
“Rosalie…” he murmured, and I could almost hear pleading in his tone.
I shook my head. Pleading was the last thing I could ever imagine Ethan doing. So this had to be a dream.
“Rosalie…please, come back to me.” he said again, and it was like someone had cast a spell on me– I couldn‘t help but move toward him, especially now that I had accepted that I must‘ve gone to sleep after dinner.
“Is that really you, Ethan?” I asked, moving closer to the person in my dream. Maybe, just this once, I would let myself imagine that he wasn‘t cold and cruel.
“It‘s me, Rosalie…”
He said my name again, and the way that it rolled off of his tongue sounded so real, I couldn‘t help but bury my head in his neck as he pulled me tight.
He even smelled real. The scent of pine and the forest filled my lungs with each breath as I ran my hands along his muscular back.
His hands grazed my shoulders, stroking my hair, and I felt tears in my eyes. I longed for him to hold me. What was the harm when this was only a dream?
“Rosalie, I‘ve missed you so much,” Ethan said into my ear. “We have so much to talk about.”
That doesn‘t sound like something a person would say if this was simply a romantic dream.
While he continued to caress me, I reached around him and pinched myself on the arm.
It hurt.
dream! I was awake!
snapped my eyes
Ethan! He was here.
felt fear
the world did he want from
him away and, leaped back away from him, my arms wrapping around
my tone accusatory. “Why
into his arms again, and caressed my hair. He looked
he was making
all of two minutes, and he was already
you come?” I asked him. “Are you here to take
by the hurt in his eyes that he meant it. “Rosalie, no… I would
stopped talking, which didn‘t surprise me. He was never one for expressing himself. Still, I had to
you here to kill
knew how he treated people who
He took a step back,
said, “No, Rosalie. I came all of this way to see you. I knew there was no way that you would ever
could finish, I heard footsteps coming in our direction. Ethan
why he was here, my instinct told me that no one should see him. Even though a part of me wanted to sell him out, to alert Soren‘s guards that a strange man was standing in my garden, I couldn‘t do that. Not until I had gotten the
urged him, not
clear that he understood
said. It was the closest thing to a request that
sound of Soren laughing. Ethan‘s face wrinkled into a grimace. It made me wonder if he knew Soren, if they had some bad blood, but now wasn‘t the
“Go!” I said again
have to
I said, my eyes
you won‘t
“No. Now, go!”
could plainly see the pure joy
still
I rushed over to meet him, hoping I could cut him off before he saw Ethan. Since Ethan was wearing all black and had been standing in the shadows, there was a chance he‘d get away before Soren could
“Yes, Soren.”
stopping by late at
to someone?” he asked with a
and trying to
noticed he had a beautiful pink
was sitting in the swing talking about how excited I was to meet my baby, and bam, right in the ribcage.
changing the subject would
I
definitely distracted. He was spinning around, looking at every shadow, sniffing the air. “I saw it on my way home from your house. It‘s so beautiful. The
of you!”
for me to actually take the flower from him. I moved a few times to step in front of him. We probably looked ridiculous to his bodyguards, who were hanging
“Soren?”
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