Chapter 140: Lost Chance

NEMESIS

BOOK FIVE: THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER SERIES

He slept as though already dead, lost to me, though he lingered yet, face pale and sunken as I remembered from our very first meeting not so long ago. Adam had been an ordinary mortal then, his life threatened by illness devouring him from the inside out, but with a sunny and charming outlook that drew me to him and captured my heart.

Held it. And owned it still.