Chapter 29

"If I don't come knocking on your door, know it is not your time"-Death.

 Pain.

 Intense and mortifying pain.

 It spread from his toenails upwards, choking him. Ruarc could barely understand what was happening to him. He felt this pain when Nuella died. Now it is here again, and Ruarc hopes the goddess is not playing games with him. Second chance mates are rare, and only the good people have them. Heaven knows, he's not a good person. Whoever this person is, is dying and Ruarc hopes the person had spent their dying moments in good hands. His heart skipped a beat every now and then and Ruarc could feel himself getting hotter. The AC was on.

 "Cocci!"

 No answer. Ruarc muttered a curse. His chest is getting congested, and lower, he felt like his intestines are being ripped out. Bullet and stab wounds he could endure. But not this. He wondered how Davidson had survived this.

 It stopped. Just like that and Ruarc wondered