Clockwork Looking Glass (Heart of Bronze Book 1) by Michael Rigg

Author:Michael Rigg [Rigg, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: SkyTrain Publishing
Published: 2014-01-16T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23, “Tarnished Wings”

I remembered running. Running and crying.

My head pounded, my body ached. I ran with my hands clutched to my chest trying to hold Addy's dress together as I felt the cool late-summer night chill my bare back. The sound of the gunshots that killed Clayton Landry echoed in my mind with the twisted memory of Lydia McFerran saying she was going to pin his murder on me, then telling me to run. Then her screams.

Tears burned my face as the cool but humid night pushed down on me, tried to trip me and put me to sleep. But I knew whatever Clayton had done to knock me out would result in a concussion. If I stopped to rest now and closed my eyes, I'd probably be dead.

All I could think about was Addy and Bryce and Mother Landry. They were the only lifelines I had in this twisted reality and I needed them now more than ever. But I couldn't circle back to the house. Even if the things Addy said were true about Bryce and Lydia, I couldn't trust it. I knew, even as my head throbbed like a thickening gunmetal cloud filling with rain, that Lydia would win over Jefferson Landry and the man would kill me on the spot. Lydia would hold me down while he put the bullets in my brain to match the ones she'd given Clayton. And Bryce and Mother Landry and—oh dear, poor little Savannah—would all be too shocked, crushed and ruined by the sudden murder of their brother and son to do anything but let Jefferson exact his vengeance. Lydia has been a part of their family. I'm an alien from another time and place. They wouldn't believe me. Not ever.

I cried and groaned and whimpered. I covered my face and screamed into my hands. I staggered from side to side in the darkened forest, moving, constantly moving, tripping over branches and stumps, scratching my arms and face and legs in thick brush and brambles as I grew more and more dizzy. I tried to calm myself, to take deep long breaths of oxygen, to blink hard and shake my throbbing head.

I knew in my heart that I'd never see Bryce, or Addy or the Landrys, ever again. And I had to wonder if I really cared deep in my soul. I started to have feelings here, feelings for Bryce if only on the surface, but I had to force them from my mind, concentrate on getting far away, then try to find out who I really was and how I got here.

I don't know how far I managed to get before I simply couldn't move any more. My legs became rubber. The long pleated dress had snagged and torn so much it hung on me like a mini skirt made of tatters. The sleeves were torn from the dress and all that was left of the bodice was a ragged cloth that I held against my breasts.

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