A Shield of Glass by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight
Published: 2017-09-08T22:00:00+00:00

Phoenix

My room felt very small. It wasn’t, but as the hours passed and I settled into a temporary state of comfort, the events of the past twenty-four hours finally started to crash into me. I felt the walls closing in as I lay in bed, trying to fall asleep.

My breathing was ragged, my chest felt heavy, and my mind couldn’t tear itself away from Viola. She’d been taken from me, and my heart hadn’t stopped bleeding since. I’d been in survival mode until I entered Stonewall. But as soon as the tension seeped out of my body, the anxiety began to bubble beneath the surface.

The image of her was seared into my memory, with her long, silky, reddish pink hair and violet eyes, her tender lips, and her sweet, innocent soul. I couldn’t feel her anymore, and I wanted to crawl into a dark hole and wither away.

But I wasn’t one to endure this kind of torture for too long. I always looked at a solution, and the absence of the Daughter expedited every process in my brain—all I could think of was how to get her back. I needed, desperately needed, to feel her in my arms again, to hear her soft breathing and listen to her voice as she whispered in my ear, her skin on mine, her taste on my lips.

Maybe I could reach out to the Daughters. Maybe I could reach some sort of agreement with them. Surely they could be reasoned with. The bond that Viola and I shared was deep on such a profound level, they couldn’t overlook it. They had to take me into account, whether they wanted to or not.

I sat up, exhaling sharply. My stomach churned and my entire ribcage ached, like she’d been cradled in there and someone had simply scooped her out and left an empty and painfully raw hole behind. I paced around my room for a while, thinking of ways to reach out to the Daughters. I had to speak to them. I had to try.

I thought of the Druid, then, and the first time we’d seen the Daughters. Maybe he could help.

I left my room and went looking for Draven throughout the living quarters. I used my True Sight, scanning each chamber until I found him at the far end, alone, perched on a window ledge. I knocked on the door, but he didn’t answer. I went in anyway. I wasn’t going to let common courtesy stop me from getting what I wanted, what I needed the most.

He looked at me with an eyebrow raised, but didn’t say anything. He waited for me to speak, and he didn’t bother to hide his emotions. I couldn’t tap into his mind like Serena, but I could still feel the dread, the anger, and the helplessness that simmered inside him. I couldn’t blame him.

I even got a whiff of guilt when our eyes met. I assumed it had to do with Vita’s vision of him killing me and the Daughter.

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