Centaur Redemption (Touched Series) by Nancy Straight

Author:Nancy Straight [Straight, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

(Camille Nash – Lost City Resort in South Africa)

The days had passed slowly. The heads of each family, except Pierre, departed the same night Zandra, Drake and a handful of enforcers left. My family and I returned to the Lost City Resort to wait for them to return. Pierre accompanied us with several from his family who had come to attend the Council meeting with him.

This place had held so much beauty when we arrived. Now it felt like my prison cell at Zandra’s estate. I don’t know what I expected. Zandra’s decree carried plenty of weight. Not only was my immediate family safe, but Will told me others from the Lost Herd began to arrive within days as word spread that no harm would come to them.

Each morning Will stopped by and wanted to introduce me to some new distant relative, and each morning I stood behind the door of my room and politely declined. I was ashamed of myself. There was so much for me to do.

Before the Council meeting, Drake and I had talked for hours about how we could “win over” the others. There were many who were curious about me, but I chose to sit in my dark room and do nothing. I should be engaging with the enforcers: I knew absent Zandra’s decree it would be them who pursued us. Making friends now could only help. Now was the perfect time for me to be an ambassador for my family.

Each time I tried to gather the strength to do what needed to be done, I fell back in a well of self-pity. This wasn’t me. I couldn’t be crippled with loneliness. I was stronger than this. My family was counting on me, and I was letting them down. Drake was counting on me, and I was letting him down, too.

The only one who would be pleased with my action, or non-action, was Zandra. Today was the day. I had wept until no more tears were possible. All week I had kept the curtains drawn tight, silently wishing for duct tape so I could shut out all the light from the rest of the world. Enough.

I stood up from the sofa, stretched my arms high in the air, and felt my muscles strain from the days of no activity. I had taken to sleeping on the sofa because I couldn’t sleep on the enormous bed by myself. The night we returned from the Centaur Council meeting, I was exhausted and my brothers poured me into the bed.

The exhaustion did nothing to drown out Drake’s scent, still heavy on the pillows. I moved to the sofa that night and only went near the bed when I wanted to torture myself. My connection with Drake was gone. Wherever he was, he was too far away for me to read his thoughts or send him mine.

I remembered back to my imprisonment at Zandra’s house, right after she convinced me Drake and Bianca were dead. I’d refused to eat and silently hoped for my own death then.

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