Set In Sparks (Morningstars Book 2) Read Online Free

her side.
    “Where is the Queen?” she asked and Jaden pointed his thumb over his shoulder.
    “Good, I have a few things to tell her and …”
    Jaden held her back as she tried to pass him and she looked at him with a questioning expression in her hazel eyes. “If something happened, I don’t think I should leave her alone. And, frankly, neither should you,” she snapped and he gave her a sad smile. Yes, he shouldn’t have left her alone, but Kaden always had been the twin she had trusted more. After all, he had been the twin to take care of her when Jaden had wanted nothing more than to run away. He owed Kaden for having kept Maya sane when Jaden couldn’t.
    “She’s not alone, so please, stop worrying. How far is dinner?” The courtier still looked back at the door as if she was ready to check Jaden’s credibility. “Kaden is with her,” he added, annoyed.
    It pissed him off to see the utter relief on the courtier’s face. “Thank the Creator. It was about time he moved his sulky ass over and showed his face,” she mumbled and Jaden glared at her.
    “Can we all please stop pretending that he’s the damn savior of the world and remember that he left us hanging more than ten times over the last … let’s say … ten weeks?” he growled and instantly Cany sobered.
    “Of course,” she admitted and then reached out to touch his arm. “But we both know that she needed to see him.” And that was probably what Jaden hated most, because it was the simple truth.

    He shouldn’t have waited so long to see Maya again. As he stood in front of her, Kaden couldn’t get enough of seeing her face.
    “He’s mad at you,” she mumbled, suddenly not looking at him anymore. “He expects me to be mad at you, too, but … I just can’t.” She shook her head and then walked away from him for a few steps, hugging herself. He wanted to go to her and hold her again, but he wasn’t exactly sure she would let him.
    “Jaden has every right to be angry with me and we both know it,” Kaden replied instead, noticing that she had lost some weight, and that meant something since she never had been anything but slim. It worried him, but what worried him more was that Jaden didn’t even seem to see she was doing badly. The look on his face when she had admitted that the people hated her made it all so clear.
    “Yes, but then, Jaden has every right to be mad at both of us,” she remarked and finally Kaden reached out, brushing her dark hair back over her shoulder so he could catch a look at what he most longed for: her slender neck.
    “Stop, Kaden,” she pleaded and then turned back around to him. He didn’t care what she had asked of him, he gathered her up in his arms and held her tightly until he felt her tension melt away.
    “I missed you, Little Star,” he whispered into her hair, knowing that he was torturing them both, not that she deserved the extra push. Kaden saw it on her face that she had missed him just as much. He needed to get his act together and be there for her, even though it nearly broke him in two to know that Jaden and her were holding hands and being all cuddly. It wasn’t that he didn’t want Jaden to be happy. It was simply that he wanted it too and sadly with the same woman, but that was something he had come to terms with after a while.
    He loved her and was meant to be with her; there was no changing that. What didn’t change, either, was the fact that he’d never ask her to choose between the twins. He felt how her hands gripped his jacket, her knuckles almost turning white at the strength she used and he gently untangled them, careful not to hurt her.
    “Listen, Maya, I need to talk to Jaden –”
    “He’s gonna stay here tonight,” she blurted out and pain pierced through him, making him clench his jaw. Luckily, it had been too long ago and she no longer would feel what he felt. It had been difficult enough to keep everything from her the first few months. “We have more than