All the Broken Places by Anise Eden

Author:Anise Eden [Eden, Anise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626819290
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2016-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Midnight found me lying in bed awake. I had slept for a few hours, but after a siren awakened me, sleep refused to come. I held my eyes closed and turned my attention inward.

In my heart, there was no more tugging. First my mother, then my clients. They were gone. The portals had been closed. I had never felt so lonely for connection, so forced into solitude. My whole purpose and reason for being—the relationships I had worked so hard to build—had been taken away from me. And in their place was nothingness.

Sharp points of grief scraped along the walls of my heart, but I had cried so much that I was out of tears. Ben had said I might come to prefer the feeling of being alone in my skin, but what did he know? He hadn’t expected me to react the way I had to the portal closures. I was “one of a kind,” he’d said. In other words, no one else was like me, so no one else could know the desolation I was feeling.

I felt an acute longing to call my mother and ask for her advice. But she had chosen to remove herself from my life. The dry heat of unshed tears burned my eyes. I would have to figure it out on my own.

I wrestled with myself. I was really growing to like Ben in spite of how difficult he could be at times, and I liked the others as well. I was genuinely interested in Dr. MacGregor’s work and in what she was trying to do. Certainly, she and Ben seemed to “get” what was going on with me more than anyone else ever had. It would be nice to have someone I could lean on. But the truth was that eventually the training program would end, and I would go back to my regular life.

Dr. Nelson had said he didn’t want me to give up on the program after one day. Well, I had given it two days; that would just have to be good enough. After all, in only forty-eight hours, they had already taken much more away from me than I could afford to lose. Who knew what would happen if I stayed even longer?

A quiet knowing settled upon me: There was only one thing to do. I had to get out.

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