Black Star Run by Brooke Hodge

Author:Brooke Hodge [Hodge, Brooke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-24T16:00:00+00:00

Five

Jason took me twice more that night. When we finally collapsed on the bed, there were only a few hours before his meeting with his buyer. Only a few hours to sleep before my new freedom began. And yet I lay in bed as his soft breathing continued beside me, awake and nervous.

I didn’t get hung up over men. They came and went in my life. Either as an obstacle or a tool. I had had many lovers, but even more enemies. I was scared of Jason becoming the latter, and that fear was worrying on its own. Worrying meant feelings. Feelings only brought suffering. I knew I had to get as far away from him as possible, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it then. Curling up against his warm body, I finally found sleep.

But it wouldn’t keep me long.

Huge, glossy black creatures with mouths full of fangs where their faces should have been invaded my dreams. I had seen them before. They were chasing the girl with the black pools for eyes. The one who always had purple flames covering her body. She was with her brother who could change time. Time and Space. The Guardians. Their sister was nowhere to be seen. Lost. Like our world.

A man shrouded in darkness stood in the shadows of my memory. He was waiting for us to all be reunited. This has all happened before and will happen again. He needs what we have so he can crush it all. His hatred for what we are is palpable.

My body was lifted from the bed. This had happened before and I was always powerless to stop it. I sobbed, though no sound came out. I was paralyzed. No words, no movements, just the grip my nightmare had on me. Please don’t wake up, Jason. I tried to open my eyes so it would end, but I was ensnared. Air moved around me, whipping the bedding below as if on the edge of a cliff above the sea. The power in the room surged, setting off alarms. It was enough to shock me fully awake and I fell back down to the bed just as Jason stirred.

“What the…?” He rubbed his eyes and looked at my tear-stained face, trying to make sense of the cacophony around us. “Why are you crying?”

I rubbed my eyes and pulled the covers up, trying to stop the shivering that had nothing to do with the temperature in the room. He reached out to me, but I shrugged away. “Just a bad dream. Why are the alarms going off?”

He didn’t move right away, still sizing me up. Carefully, he slid his feet over the edge of the bed and checked his handheld on the nightstand. “Power surge. Some non-essential systems were overloaded, but nothing major. Pretty common on old stations like this.” He sat the device back down and slid back into the covers. He reached for me and I tried to fight it off, but I desperately wanted to be held by him.

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