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and bright red words
scrolled over the wall in its place.
    Duha'i ni. Orsilani.
Ba--
    And then it was gone. It
didn't even finish scrolling from one corner to the next. It just
winked out.
    I stood up and pulled open
my wall data pad, trying to get the message back, but when I
flipped through my wall's data histories, there was no mention of
even one message to me. It was like what I'd just seen had never
existed.
    Orsilani...
    My interest piqued and I
pushed all thoughts of visions and Malik to the back of my mind. I
wondered if the message had anything to do with Ranen Orsili. Odd
considering he'd had nothing to do with me since I'd gotten back.
Not even a "Hello, welcome back. Great job defeating Manoo and
fulfilling that prophecy I'd been so worried about. You know, the
one I was supposed to prepare you for but didn't?"
    Yeah, very nice of
him.
    But still, I was curious.
Who wouldn't be after getting a mysterious message that winked out
of existence the moment it popped up? So, I repeated the words
under my breath so I wouldn't forget and left my room for Cailen's.
The very same Cailen who was at that moment angry with
me.
     

Chapter Four
    Cailen
     
    It occurred to me I
probably should've gone to his room sooner and for a different
reason, but I never seemed to make the right decisions.
    I repeated the strange
words from my wall one more time before knocking on Cailen's door.
I heard some rustling, muffled through the steel that separated us,
and then the door slid open.
    Electricity crackled all
over the surface of my skin, boring into my veins, oozing warmth
into my lungs. And then I saw Cailen and I lost all sense of
everything. Thoughts of the message? Completely and utterly
gone.
    He stood inches from me in
only a pair of olive pants, his arm resting on the doorframe, and a
look of death in his eyes, challenge pouring off of him in waves.
His wings spread across his back, the green tips casting lovely
shadows on his face.
    The moment our eyes met,
every muscle in my body melted. I only half-noticed my hand reach
out to his, my fingers lacing through his fingers, pulling him to
me.
    His gaze lightened and his
lips quirked into a smile. "I thought you were someone
else."
    I rested my head on his
chest, soaking up the liquor-sweet warmth. "You didn't feel me
coming?"
    His free hand slid down my
back and he pressed his cheek against the top of my head. "I always
feel you here."
    My heart swelled beneath
my chest, almost aching, and I closed my eyes. I breathed him in. I
wanted all my senses totally and completely consumed with Cailen.
His smooth skin beneath my cheek, his heartbeat drumming against my
ear, his lips on mine.
    I lifted my head and
looked up into his eyes. I rubbed his bottom lip with my thumb,
wondering if I should kiss him. Would he pull away?
    Instead, I said,
"Sometimes I really do think I love you."
    He brushed his fingertips
along my jaw. "I know I love you. Every moment of my
life."
    It was at that moment that
my body shuddered, rocked to the very core. I knew beyond a shadow
of a doubt that yes, I loved him. That I craved those electrical
sparks and his touch not like a Tat Wack craved information or a
drug addict craved his next fix, but like a broken, orphaned girl
hungry for the one person she'd kept a piece of her entire
life.
    He leaned down and laid
his forehead against mine. I realized then as my back pressed
against a cold, flat surface and his warm body pressed against
mine, that he'd pulled me into his room and closed the door behind
me.
    "I'm so sorry," I
said.
    "For what?"
    "For taking so long to
figure out how I felt."
    "You lost your memories."
His hands tightened on my waist. A moment of anger ripped through
him to me before calm washed it away. "I was a
stranger."
    My face flushed hot with
guilt. There was so much I hadn't told him. So much he didn't even
know about me. I wondered if he'd feel the same way if I told him
everything.
    "Yes, Ella." Malik's voice oozed like tar through