Club Beam: Shadow World (Beyond Fairytales) by Erzabet Bishop

Author:Erzabet Bishop
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: A Beyond Fairytales Adaptation of Grimms' "The Beam
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Published: 2015-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“Oh my God.” Sydney stood up and stalked toward the mirror, her eyes never breaking contact with the woman in the glass. Her green eyes flickered in the dim light of the room and burned yellow. A growl escaped her lips, and she gasped at the pain threading through her body.

“Sydney…,” Debra called out.

“Ms. Marr, you have a face again. I thought you would be pleased.”

The doctor appeared beside her in the mirror, his mien one of stilted concern.

“It’s not me,” she whispered. “How can it not be me?” Tears gathered in her eyes as Sydney turned to face the doctor. His expression became calculated.

“Syd. Please.” Debra interjected, pushing past the doctor, taking her by the upper arms. A tall woman, she stared down into Syd’s eyes. “I need you to calm down and be rational about this.”

Realization hit her like a brick to the stomach.

“You did this.” Sydney backed away, her mind awash with horror. “You had him give me a new face. How could you do that?”

Sydney’s stomach lurched, and the water she’d just swallowed threatened to come back up. Debra had known all this time and hadn’t said a word. Not given her one solitary clue. Her mind raced back to that night and the blur of activity following the attack. Debra at the club. Master Gideon’s response and the abrupt way she was torn from him. The way Debra couldn’t look at her when she came to check on her a month ago.

That part she hadn’t remembered until now. Before the series of events had just been a fuzzy dream. Now they stood out stark against the reality literally staring her in the face. The injury. The surgery that probably should have healed by now—without her face being hidden. What a fucking crock. The betrayal rocked her to the core.

“I had to, Syd.”

Tears blurred her vision as Sydney turned and darted down the hall to the bathroom. She reached the toilet just in time. Stomach twisting, she leaned over the porcelain bowl as her guts threatened to turn inside out.

Debra pulled a loose clump of hair from her face and twisted it back into the messy updo it had been in before. She laid a hand on her back and rubbed it as Sydney sobbed and retched into the commode.

“I know you don’t understand why I did it, but if you’ll listen….”

“No. You—” Sydney gagged as another wave of retching shook her. Her eyes burned and a snarl slipped past her lips. She slapped at Debra’s hand, furious.

“Doctor!” Debra pulled her hand away and stepped back.

Sydney’s body twinged, and a ripple of muscle spasms laid her out on the cold tile floor. Her limbs contorted, and the fine hair on her arms coarsened and turned dark. A scream that morphed to a howl tore through her lips.

The doctor appeared in the doorway, his earlier concerned expression now a mask of clinical detachment. “I want to see how far the change goes.”

“No. You have to make it stop!” Debra protested, horror spreading across her face.

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