A Kindled Winter by Rachel L. Demeter

Author:Rachel L. Demeter [Demeter, Rachel L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0150FMNT0
Goodreads: 26221419
Publisher: Black Lyon Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Burning flesh swells my nostrils. Bile bubbles inside my throat. The world around me transforms into a nauseating blur. My mind detaches from my body, and only one thing alone matters: I must save my little boy. Nothing else exists. Not the flames crawling up and down my arms, consuming me alive—devouring my skin with the fervor of a thousand hungry mouths. Not my T-shirt, which quickly turns to ashes and falls away from my body. Not the rancid scents of my boiling flesh and burning hair.

Only Charlie matters.

Lizzy’s voice echoes the kitchen, muffled and panicked—as if emerging from the surreal depths of a dream world. “Save him, David! God, please, please, please …”

I grasp Charlie against my racing heart, roll across the marble floor, and hold him tight—struggling to suffocate the flames. Take me instead, I inwardly scream. I deserve this—not my little boy. But he falls limp in my arms and crumbles into nothingness. Soul-wrenching cries swell my eardrums and melt my insides into a dense, quivering mass. The screams are primitive, guttural, choked … almost inhuman in their despair. And it’s not until the tears cascade down my cheeks that I realize they’re my own …

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Christmas Eve

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