Chapter 2:
When Xerxes awoke a second time, he didn't have a very pleasant feeling. He could tell that he was lying on something comfortable, but it could never measure up to the soft grass and Emily's lap. There was pain in his body. His limbs felt weak and his head hurt a bit so he groaned wearily.
Break could also hear voices that died down immediately, hearing a sign of life from the unconscious man.
Xerxes blinked a few times before opening his eye completely.
He saw Reim and Sharon hurrying over to his bedside and bending over him. They looked relieved to see him still alive and smiled down at Break.
"Oh, Xerxes, I'm so glad you woke up! We almost thought this time you wouldn't..." Sharon said and Break could see the worry in her eyes. He stared at those loving eyes for a while and all of a sudden the image of his former Mistress, Emily, appeared before his eye.
Her kindness, the warmth that came from her heart and engulfed him in hope, her entire being just made him want to keep living and enjoy all the time he could with her.
Suddenly he understood what Emily had meant.
And this was when he realized that Emily would always keep living. In Sharon.