Chapter 30 – WacławShe’s hiding something…
WE KISSED FOR WHAT SEEMED LIKE FOREVER, drifting through the void with only the glow of our skin to break its darkness.
Admitting my love for Otylia had my head spinning. It was probably foolish to say it moments after I’d nearly died, but holding her, I forgot about Marzanna’s plots, Death’s tricks, and the slaughter at Kynnytsia. They had brought me to the edge, taken all my life.
Otylia had brought me back.
She hadn’t admitted the same feelings and was obviously hiding something about Death’s intentions. For now, though, I forced away my panic at that fact. This was my one time with her. Hesitance and fear had stopped me too often in life.
Neither of us knew what we were doing with love or our battle against Marzanna. It was all new and—co
