Eir’s Hymns.
Of course, Killian knew about it. It was the song that had been buried deep in the history of the Sirens, the song that was rumoured to create a magic so divine that it could heal almost every malady. Whether it was poison or a congenital disease. There was not a single disease that the song couldn’t heal.
However, this song had been lost in the pages of history, and no one had ever been able to rewrite it. Many sirens had tried to fill in the lost stanzas, but they had failed in perfecting it; some even went crazy when they wasted years rewriting the song only for it to fail.
"You don’t have to take a risk so dangerous," Killian tightened his hold on her and whispered. "Though I have never seen a siren going crazy, I have heard a lot about sirens going crazy trying to rewrite the hymn. Don’t try to push yourself too hard."
Inez smiled at him gently. She reached out and cupped his cheek before saying to him, "I have to write the hymn either way. I promised you that I would treat Selene, and that’s why you brought me here in your pack. I cannot break that promise."
When Killian heard her response, he clenched his jaw. Though he wanted to say that she didn’t have to, he couldn’t. Because he cared about Selene just as much as he cared about Inez, he couldn’t protect one and give up on another.
Inez knew what Killian was thinking. She said to him, "There is no need for you to think too much. Be optimistic; maybe I will be the first siren who will be able to rewrite the hymn and perfect it?"
Killian tried to smile, but he was worried. He said, "You can try, but if it gets too much, you can stop. Sel is doing better with your healing, and goddess forbid, if she never gets better, it’s alright as long as her condition doesn’t deteriorate."
"But she is your sister," Inez said with a frown. "Naturally, you would want her to get better, right?"
"I do," Killian replied as he swallowed hard. "I really do. Fuck, I want nothing more than her getting better but I can’t lose you." He added softly. He cupped her face with his hands and said in a desperate and clingy voice, "I don’t know how it happened, Inez... I can’t explain it either, but you have become a part of my life that I don’t want to lose. So you better not leave me or I swear I will do something crazy."
Inez didn’t know how to feel about it.
She thought Killian would appreciate it and maybe even urge her to complete the song. Though he liked her and even fancied her enough, she knew that she could never become more important to him than his family. However, Killian had surprised her once again.
He wanted to save Selene, but not at the cost of losing her, and that—that honestly did something to her.
There were soft and warm currents in her belly, and she couldn’t help but feel giddy.
In the past, when she was at the Venus pack, Inez had tried to understand Dominic’s actions. Thinking and believing that it was all due to the death of his sister that he was treating her so cruelly. But only now did she realise that maybe she never meant anything to him.
Because if she did, then hurting her might have hurt Dominic just as much.
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