Charmed (The Charmed Series) by Zart Lindy

Author:Zart, Lindy [Zart, Lindy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Eli checked up on me sometime in the afternoon. I hadn’t moved since I’d finished the book hours ago. “Why didn’t you tell me? Why didn’t anyone tell me?”

His eyes shifted. “Tell you what?”

“So that’s why there will be no more Charmed? No more Guardians? Because we all die?”

He smoothed his hair back. It immediately sprang back into a gray mane around his face. “We don’t know for sure we’ll become extinct.”

“But there's a good chance. It says it will be the end of the Charmed and Guardians. How much plainer does it need to be spelled out?”

He did his agitated pace back and forth in front of the couch. “Some think it may just mean that our supernatural abilities will be gone, that the world will be in peace once more, so our gifts will no longer be needed.”

My eyes drilled into his. “What do you think?”

“It isn’t for us to worry and wonder over.”

“Nice vague answer. You’re good at those.”

Eli suddenly raised stormy green eyes to my face. I took a step back, surprised by the fierceness of his gaze. “It will happen as it should. Now, if you’re finished with the book, I would like it back.”

I silently offered it to him.

Eli snatched it from my hands and moved to leave the room.

“Have you always been able to read my thoughts?” I called.

He stopped, turned around. Wariness had taken over his features. “I…heard your voice, yes, occasionally.”

An emotion I didn’t like struck me. “Why didn’t you ever contact me? Let me know?”

Eli sighed. “It was hard to make out your thoughts, Taryn. They were jumbled, incoherent. Most of the time I couldn’t understand them and when I could I had to be extremely focused just to pull out a wayward thought. But I knew you were well, and that was what mattered.”

“Did you know where I was? Did Luke know? Why did you stay away?”

He was shaking his head before I’d finished. “No, Taryn, nothing as specific as that. It was so random, so unclear. I’m sorry.”

I swallowed and looked at the swirly rug under my feet. “I just thought maybe…you could have told me about my parents, could have let me know the truth. I felt so alone.” I hated admitting it. I shrugged and looked at him. “It just would have been nice to know I wasn’t.”

He looked at me a long time and finally said, “You weren’t alone. Luke was always there. He felt you, just as you felt him. You just didn’t pay attention.” Eli left, leaving me to dwell on that.

Was it true? I sank into a chair and covered my face with my hands, trembling. I tried to think back throughout my childhood, tried to remember if I’d felt a connection to another being that couldn’t possibly be there. My head lifted. I swallowed thickly.

When I was fifteen, something bad had almost happened. I was walking home from Angela’s house. It had been dark out, nighttime. A man had come out of nowhere and followed behind me on the sidewalk.

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