Death A La Mode by Tawdra Kandle

Author:Tawdra Kandle [Kandle, Tawdra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Recipe for Death, Book2
Publisher: EverAfter Romance
Published: 2015-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

“I WANT TO talk with you about what happened with Delia.”

We were speeding down the highway through the dark, taking the shorter route back to Palm Dunes now that the sun had set. For the first fifteen minutes of the ride, neither of us spoke beyond the small necessities of regulating the car’s temperature and finding the right radio station. But I knew I had to talk to Lucas now, tonight, or I’d chicken out.

When I spoke into the dimly-lit interior of the car, I didn’t look at him. I kept my eyes on the road in front of us.

“Okay.” There was no judgment there, no expectation.

“When Delia took over, it was scary. I felt like I was going to die. I told you that. She came in, and it was like someone was climbing into a dress I was already wearing. Only instead of the dress ripping, she just . . . pushed me deeper. Down far, so far that I couldn’t breathe or think or even exist anymore. I ceased to be for that space of time.”

Lucas didn’t say anything, but his hands tightened on the steering wheel.

“And I thought that was bad, but then awareness started to come back. And that was even worse. Because as I came back, it meant I was pushing Delia out since the two of us could not fit in my body. But doing that felt wrong. She was holding on with everything she had, trying to fight you from removing her and fighting me from taking over again. She . . . she screamed, Lucas, and it was the most horrific thing I’ve ever heard. She begged me not to make her go. She said she didn’t want to go back. When she was torn away, it felt like she scraped off a piece of my soul.”

After a moment of silence, Lucas reached for my hand. “I’m sorry. I had no idea. I knew she didn’t want to go, but I didn’t know she’d hung on. And I didn’t know you’d been hurt.”

“I didn’t want to talk about it, because I felt so guilty. For sending her back. How could I do that?”

“How could you not? Jackie, you said it yourself. There wasn’t room for both of you. You did what you needed to do to survive. No one blames you for doing it, and you shouldn’t blame yourself. Besides, it was really me who forced Delia back to the gray place.”

“I know that logically. But it still feels as though it was me who did it. And sometimes I can still hear her. In my dreams, too.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Lucas steered the car to the exit that would lead us to Palm Dunes. “I might’ve been able to help you.”

“I didn’t want you to think I blamed you. I don’t. And I needed to figure it out myself.”

“Talking to Rafe helped?”

I hesitated. “Some, yes, but it wasn’t so much talking to him. It was . . . he gave me a choice.

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