Awaken by Lori Adams

Author:Lori Adams [Adams, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780804178860
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-07-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

A Mad Russian’s Roulette

All throughout school, Bailey is hyper beyond her normal sugar high and won’t tell me the reason why. I suspect she is overjoyed to learn that her dark love interest, aka, Vaughn Raider, really is hotter than Hell.

“Au contraire,” she says, dumping seventy-five pounds of knowledge into her locker. She gives me her Cheshire cat grin. “You don’t think you’re the only one who’s good at keeping secrets, do you?”

Oh Lord. Do I want to know?

She won’t explain but continues to tease me with cryptic remarks all the way to the square. We part company at the café where she joins our friends, and I schlep off to work. I can stay only an hour so I get busy. Miss Minnie reminds me of tonight’s assignment. I have forgotten.

“The first event of the season,” she says with a crunchy frown. It seems odd that, between the two of us, I am the one always forgetting things. “The tree-lighting ceremony and the Turn On Your Santa show.”

Ah, it’s all coming back to me now.

I tap my phone and bring up my calendar, checking the long list of assignments. Damn, it’s gonna be a tight fit to make this work. I start calculating how much time I can allot to each homework assignment between my sessions with Rama and the demon hunters. Not much.

But I’m determined, so I dive into work. Miss Minnie has extended my duties of photographer to include copyediting. It seems I’m not the only one with a faulty memory. LeRoy, Miss Minnie’s brother, has become rather creative in the spelling department. He refuses to touch a computer since he lost a slew of files a few months ago, and now writes his column of historical tidbits in longhand. I do my best to translate. I am now fluent in gibberish. It takes a good forty-five minutes before I’m done and dismissed. But I do come away with a better understanding of the history of Haven Hurst.

Rama is waiting in my room when I get home. He has lit soothing candles, softened the lights, and arranged pillows on the floor. We’re free of demon intrusions and get right to work. As we settle into a peaceful state of meditation and I’m free of all distractions, he tells me to search for my soul. Within me is the soul and within the soul is all the wisdom of the world. The spiritual realm I’m seeking is the inner life of my soul. Everything I need to know and need to use on my journey is within me. I must not fear it or the power it brings. I must embrace the light radiating behind my closed eyelids and let it expand within me.

The ball of light is swirling shades of blue again. The ringing in my ears is familiar now and growing stronger, pleasant. I have the sense of seeing as though my eyes are open. I have the sense of knowing things as though the secret knowledge I was born with is gently rising to the surface.

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