Scorched Secrets

~Rowena~

Dexter’s words had me rooted to the spot, my mouth gaping open in shock. It couldn’t be true. It shouldn't be. Soren was dead. Kaelar and I had seen to that ourselves. I had watched the life fade from my almost-lover’s eyes. I had wept for him despite the atrocities he had committed. Soren couldn't be alive. And yet, as Dexter sat down on the steps of the hall, he insisted that he was.