Absolution (League of Vampires Book 3) by Rye Brewer

Author:Rye Brewer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-06-03T22:00:00+00:00

20

JONAH

The pain was almost blinding. If I could’ve cut my arm off to end the burning sensation, I would have. Only it was starting to spread throughout my body. Every step was agony.

“We’re almost there,” Fane muttered as he helped me stay on course. “Just hold on.”

I could make out the shape of Anissa walking next to Allonic. She had tried to help me walk. She didn’t hate me, not that I understood why she would, if she did.

I had not done anything to hurt her, had I? I couldn’t think clearly, but even so, I couldn’t remember anything. She was the last person I’d ever want to hurt. I went out of my way not to hurt her, even though she always found a reason to be mad when I meant well.

I looked over to my right, where Gage and Philippa walked together. I still had a hard time getting over what he did when he ran away, but at least he was feeling the same pain I was. That sort of made up for it. We could work the rest of it out somehow.

“Talk to me,” I groaned as Fane helped me through the tunnel. “Tell me something. Anything. I need to stop thinking about how this damned brand burns.”

“What do you want to hear about?”

“Anything. I don’t care. Just give me something to think about other than this.” I held up my arm, and just that slight gesture was enough to make me grit my teeth.

“Your sister got me thinking about when your mother and I first came to the city,” he said. “We could always see it across the river, you know. We watched it grow bigger and bigger. Sometimes we’d go over if we needed something—parts for our farm machinery, that sort of thing. Neither of us really cared for the hustle and bustle. She was a farm girl at heart, and farm work was in my blood. I had grown up thinking people who lived all crammed together were insane. Why would you do that if you could live out in the open? Feeling the earth between my fingers, smelling the fresh air—especially right after the rain? That was the best.” He sounded like his old self when he talked that way, animated and happy.

“Only we couldn’t once we turned.” His voice went dark.

I wished he would keep talking about the farm if it meant he would sound happy again.

“We tried to live our normal lives, but there isn’t much work a farmer can do when he can’t go out in sunlight. Granted, by that time there wasn’t much work I had to do on my own. We had hands to help with the grunt work, so to speak. But those hands needed supervision. They wanted to see me during the day, outside. That just wasn’t possible—I’ll never forget the first time I tried. You think you’re in pain now?” His laugh was grim.

“It was the same with your mother, too. Do you remember any of those days?”

I tried to think back.

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