Page 61 of Once the Skies Fade (Immortal Reveries #2)

Chapter 61

Calla

O ne moment there was dark emptiness, a hollow peace. The next moment my world was on fire. Brilliant white light chased away the darkness. A breath so pure, so fresh rushed into my lungs, so different from anything I’d ever experienced I wondered if I had ever truly been living before now.

Had someone done it?

Had they found the cure?

Someone must have.

But all I saw around me was a white expanse that both delighted and terrified me at the same time. I tried to open my eyes, but no matter how many times I blinked, I was still here. Alone.

Yet…not.

There, pulsing through my confused elation, was something else.

Panic, but not mine.

I closed my eyes again, and Matthias’s face flashed into focus.

That smirk. That mischievous spark in his eye.

Neither were present now.

He stared at me so intensely, like he was seeing me—really seeing me—for the first time.

My chest caved inward one final time, as if saying goodbye to the hollowness I’d nurtured these past months. No, my whole life.

Gasping for another breath, my heart burst from where it had lain shattered and broken, not simply healed, but new. I had loved Brennan—of course I had, but only as much as a flawed heart could.

This…this was something different, something incredible, something impossible.

Like having every dream fulfilled, every wish granted, every hope realized.

My heart pounded furiously against my sternum, filling my ears, as if it were trying to reach him.

I needed to find him.

I needed to wake up.

I needed to get back to him.

Back to…my mate.