Eleanor turned away to step inside the circle of salt surrounding the multiple corpses when something came over Damien and he could not help himself when he reached out to her and turned her around.
She looked into his eyes questioningly when he placed his palm on her cheek tenderly whilst stroking her skin with his thumb. “Please, be careful.” He whispered in a shaky voice; he could feel his heart struggling inside his chest at the thought of her life being in danger. “I would never be able to forgive myself if something happened to you.”
Eleanor was drawn into his midnight eyes, as dark as the wings of a raven and as magical as the black expanse of the universe; she had never seen such dark eyes with so much light shining inside them. She was entranced.
Unconsciously she stretched u
