Covenant (Sojourner Book 2) by Maria Rachel Hooley

Author:Maria Rachel Hooley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: angels, maria rachel hooley, paranormal romance, sojourner series, urban fantasy, young adult
Publisher: Maria Rachel Hooley

Chapter Eleven

The night passes in a blurry montage of moments with Elizabeth, and I wake numerous times, my gasping breath stuttering against the silence that surrounds me, and I realize there is no darkness thick enough to take away any of this. I am stuck with it, and I don’t know how to function.

I slip away as dawn starts to trickle pink and blue into the sky, and even as I lift myself toward the Upper Realm, I can’t get rid of the knowledge I have asked for because it claims me and burns. While I want to go by and see Elizabeth, I dare not during waking hours. It is one thing to be so near to her when she sleeps and her eyes do not reveal that she lives in a world without me. But awake there is no question I am absent from her life, and I will continue to be absent because that is what is required.

Although I wonder if Celia or Evan would be lingering where I’ve been resting, waiting for me to get back, no one stands there, which is really a good thing, considering all the chaos swirling within me I haven’t yet found a way to dispel.

I look at this starkness around me and try to figure out what I’m going to do. It’s not like I can keep sojourning when I can’t carry souls. Perhaps I will have to be reassigned. Of course, that thought brings me no comfort because it will mean Elizabeth will be farther away, and I can’t bear that. In all the years of going through carrying her soul, I never thought it would finally end, and that I would at last be free of her. Now that I am, I can’t stand the weight of that freedom. It smothers me.

I try to block the memories, but they permeate my thoughts, and it’s difficult to clear them away. So few memories really, but it’s not the number that destroy; it’s the content and emotion. It’s seeing her perfect smile when she was with me in contrast to the haunted expression she now wears. Loving me has broken her, and I want to fix it, to make things better for her, but I don’t know how.

“When did you finally get back?”

I look up to find Celia standing nearby. She stares intently at me.

“Just a little while ago,” I respond, trying to keep my tone even despite the onslaught of memories.

“Where were you?”

I glance up her sharply, and my first inclination is to tell her she doesn’t need to know because she isn’t my keeper. Nevertheless, I know where that will get me, so I say, “Out.”

Her eyes try to engage mine, but I keep looking away, trying to keep her from probing the chaos that overflows from within. It’s too much, I know, and she’s going to pick up on it. It’s just a matter of time.

“Lev, I sense the disturbance within you, and granted, you’ve had some difficult moments, but what I’m picking up is worse.

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