"El?" He called and run over to where she had fallen. Her eyes were still closed but her skin was no longer pale. The radiance that had once left her face came, glowing even brighter than before.
He held her crumpled legs and straightened them before he crawled to caress her face. His lips parted slightly as he waited for the magical moment when she'd open her eyes and return back to him.
There was no heartbeat still! She was in a state of purgatory where she belonged to neither life nor death.
Allicent forced herself up, every fiber in her body now wasted. Her eyes had sunk inside her skin and turned a shade darker. She saw Gabriel holding Elena's hands not far away from where she was, a wry smile painting her face. It had worked! But there was one little detail she hadn't briefed Gabriel on. And it was the final and most important.
"What now?" Gabriel asked, holding Elena's hands helplessly. There was no sign of life in her, and death too. This made it all strange.
