Asylum by Kit Bladegrave

Author:Kit Bladegrave [Bladegrave, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00

14

Sabella

I finally managed to stop picturing Tristan in nothing, but bandages and the guilt of lying right to his face came back to swallow me whole.

I remembered every single moment of what happened in that castle, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell him. He only trusted me because of a truth spell, but part of him held back because I was a seer.

What would he do if he found out the truth of whose blood really ran through my veins?

He’d throw me out, or worse, throw me in a dungeon. I’d never see the sun again. I’d never have clarity from the visions and the voices that hounded me again. I’d be lost in my own mind. Nothing but the crazy redhead in a cell.

But not telling him was eating a hole right through me. He’d come back for me at the castle, could’ve easily gotten himself killed, and how did I repay him? By lying to him.

I paced endlessly around my room for two days, not bothering to leave it unless I had to pee or snag a tiny bite to eat from the hall.

Forrest and Craig needed Tristan more than I did right then, what with Kate falling deeper and deeper into torment placed on her by him. I rubbed my sore chin, feeling his fingers pinching me there all over again, and pivoted harshly on my heel to stomp to the other side of the room.

“Maybe it’s not true,” I whispered to the air. “He’s lying, that’s all it is. More lies.”

Why would he lie? a voice answered me in my head. What would be the reason to show you all of that just to have it not be the truth?

“But why show me? Why does he want me to know who I am?”

You mean what you are, don’t you? He wants you to know so you can see what’s happening.

“I don’t know what’s happening. All I saw was… was her face…”

I stopped sharply as the image came back to me. That smiling face, eyes filled with tears as she stared down at me. Mom. He’d shown me my mom, and she was more than I ever imagined. My heart ached, confused to why she’d given me up in the first place. I had her name, that much was clear to me, as was what she was. But everything else remained hidden from my sight.

Stop using your head and use the gift you’ve been given.

“I can’t,” I hissed through gritted teeth. “I’m not strong enough.”

You have her blood flowing through your veins. You are as strong as they come. Now use it.

My hands closed over my ears, desperate to be left alone, but the voice only repeated itself over and over and over again until it was all I heard. Faces clouded my mind, too many to try and name. Too many to focus on and then I was falling, falling into that darkness again. It washed over me, surrounded me and when I burst through, sucking in air to breathe, I saw it.

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