Covet by Smeltzer Micalea

Author:Smeltzer, Micalea
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

Her words washed over me like a bucket of ice water.

I sat, frozen, processing her words over and over again.

He’s alive.

He’s alive.

He’s alive.

You’re alive? I accused. You’re alive and you didn’t tell me? I was beyond hurt.

Mara, I was trying to protect you.

Protect me? I shrieked at him. Protect me from what? You’ve been speaking to me all this time and I thought you were dead. I thought you were a ghost or something, and you let me believe it!

Mara, please, he begged. You know your safety means more to me than my own life. I couldn’t let you risk your life to save mine.

Fat lot of good it does now. Where are you? I need to find you.

NO! he shouted so forcefully I literally felt the words reverberate around my skull.

Theo, my mind sobbed. Don’t say that. If you’re alive we can come for you. We can—

I told you I’d find my way back to you and I will. I’m working on it. But you need to stay away.

Don’t do this. You’re being stupid. We can find you—we can save you.

Mara, I could’ve left any time I wanted, he growled angrily. Some things are worth the risk.

What do you mean?

Knowledge, Mara. It’s the most powerful weapon we hold. I’m coming back to you. I always was. But not yet.

I felt him slip from my mind.

Theo! THEODORE! I yelled, but he wasn’t there anymore, and I didn’t know how to slip into his mind.

Adelaide was sobbing across from me and gathering more than one stare.

“We should go,” I said, and dumped our food in a nearby trashcan before dragging her from the food court and to the garage we’d parked in.

I was sweating from nerves, from the fact Theo was alive.

In the moment, I hated him.

I hated him for speaking inside my mind for months and not once giving me a hint he was alive. He knew how much I ached for him, how I mourned, and he let me.

I wanted to say I couldn’t forgive him but I’d be lying.

Adelaide cried the whole way back, I couldn’t even talk to her to tell her what he’d said to me.

Where was he? Why could he leave at any time? Surely, if the Iniquitous had taken him he couldn’t just walk out? What did all this mean?

I parked the Range Rover and dumped our Starbucks out into a trashcan since I knew the wrath of Jee wasn’t worth leaving them there, and grabbed our stuff—the Starbucks bag and a few odd things we picked up at the mall.

The ride up in the elevator was the longest of my life.

“What’s wrong?” Ethan asked running down the hall to us at the sound of Adelaide crying.

“She’s fine,” I assured him. “She’s not hurt.”

Winston collided into the back of Ethan and quickly righted himself, pulling Adelaide into his arms. She clung to him like her life depended on it.

“What’s all this sniffling about?” Jee asked, walking down the hall with Nigel in his arms. The cat had taken an uncanny liking to Jee I couldn’t begin to fathom.

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