Awakened and Betrayed: The Lost Sentinel Book 2 by Ivy Asher

Author:Ivy Asher [Asher, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Everything hurts. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. It means I’m not dead, but it’s getting harder and harder to keep from wishing that I was. The pain is unyielding. Sometimes it feels like I’m burning alive, other times I feel like I’m being flayed. I thought getting my runes was bad, but this—whatever this is— is infinitely worse. Whoever is holding me, brushes hair away from my face and speaks close to my ear. Their breath feels like needles against my neck, and their words are lost in the pain that saturates every inch of me.

I can’t control the screaming. My throat is raw from it, my voice slowly giving out. My body can’t decide if it wants to crumble in on itself or arch to escape the pain, and I twitch from one position to the other. Cool air brushes against my skin and I feel myself being passed over to someone else. I force my eyes open, hoping to see one of my guys but Becket looks back at me instead. He shouts to the others, and suddenly we stop moving. Enoch, Nash, and Kallan peer down at me, asking me if I’m okay, but I’m about as far from it as I can be.

I will one trembling hand over to the other and run a shaky, pain filled finger over the runes that will call my guys. Beckett and the others watch me confused, but I’m not capable of giving them any answers. It’s all I can do to keep my eyes open, to focus on the task of calling my Chosen. They’ll come. I just hope I can hang on until then.

Becket starts moving again. I close my eyes against the pain the jostling of his movements spark, and grit my teeth against the scream trying to force its way out of me.

“We should have taken her to our dads, at least they might know what the hell to do! What the fuck are we going to do for her here?”

“Becket, shut the fuck up! For all we know they did this to her. She didn’t want to go back into that house for a reason!”

“Fuck you, Nash! You can shove your bullshit accusations up your ass!”

Something cool presses against the back of my body, and I realize that I’m being placed in a bed.

“Both of you stop! Becket, she’s here now, so figure out something more helpful than bitching about it. Until we know what the hell is going on, Nash, keep your issues with the elders to yourself. Kallan call Aydin, see if he has any idea what’s going on.” Enoch’s voice booms around the room, and the others fall silent at his commands.

The bed presses down next to me, and he runs his hand over my forehead and down my cheek. I try to turn away from him, but I can’t move. I can’t speak. My scream-abused voice has finally abandoned me. All I can do is whimper and hope, one way or another, this ends soon.

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