Blue Wake by M. L. Bullock

Author:M. L. Bullock [Bullock, M. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-07-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven—Cruise

Total Recall

“He’s going to run,” I heard a voice beside me warn. My blood surged as thousands of tiny sticks of dynamite went off in my brain. All the dark places, all the blurred images came into clear view now. The face of the harpy. That had been real. The feel of her breath, the scraping of her claws on my flesh. The night I saw a mermaid swimming alongside Nik, that had been real. I hadn’t dreamed it as I imagined. Ray, he did have wings that popped out of his back, blue wings.

And Mom, she had been real too. All this time of forgetting her, not remembering the timbre of her voice or the feel of her hands as she soothed my head when I had a fever. That had been real. Seeing her running into the copse of trees behind our mainland house completely naked, that had been real too. Hearing the sounds of the wolves crying in the night, that had been real. I opened my eyes and jumped to my feet. All of my senses were firing like never before. The girl beside me, Officer Tragic, she was like me. Whatever I was. Molly, I could see her now, like she really was—I could see the faint outline of her human façade, but there was something else. Ray stood by me and spoke to me, but my senses of smell and sight overwhelmed me. Besides I wasn’t listening to him but to something deep underground. It scratched, banged and screamed for my attention. Then I heard a familiar voice below us.

Nik!

Ray was right—I did run. I crashed through the window behind me, the metal frame and glass not hurting me in the least. I was on the ground, ignoring the screams behind me. I ran around the building looking for a way down.

My heart was heavier than it had ever been before, but I wasn’t anywhere near crying. I felt very much alive. Like I was the real me, whatever that was. I knew it was something not quite human. And that filled me with fear. Not only did I remember with complete detail, but I saw what shouldn’t be there, smelled what I shouldn’t smell and heard the smallest sound. A red ball of emotion, mostly anger, pulsed inside me now, and I screamed in agony at the amount of stimulation that came at me. I had to run away from this feeling!

“Hey, Cruise, wait! You can’t just run around the island like this.” Officer Tragic trailed me and finally grabbed my arm. “Stop it! Listen to us. We’re all trying to help you.”

“Cover your ears, guys. I’ve got this,” Liliana shouted. Before I knew how to respond, she began to sing a few notes of a song. It was a sweet song, an ooey-gooey song that made me want to lie in the sand on the beach with someone sexy. Since Nik wasn’t around, I reached for Kendra Tragic.

I kissed her. I don’t know why.

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