Death Eater Complete Collection by Catherine Stovall

Author:Catherine Stovall [Stovall, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CLS Publications
Published: 2016-06-30T05:00:00+00:00

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“Please, please, no more. I can’t take it,” she begged into the echo of her screams. The deaths came in rolling waves, and she felt each one like a cold and violent shadow of the torment playing out in her mind. Fevers burned her brain as chills rippled up her flesh, and nausea rose and fell inside her stomach like waves in a storm. The pain afflicted upon her dream self became as real to her body in the physical world as anything she had ever experienced.

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Vega stumbled, her uncoordinated, jerking walk more from the painful sickness than the exhaustion weighing down her muscles. Cancer. The word spun inside her head, almost sounding as forlorn as the lone train whistle echoing in the distance.

The real Vega watched and shook her head in silent horror as the tall and thin version of herself climbed a rocky embankment. She could already see what would happen, but she couldn’t turn away and couldn’t wake up. Trapped inside a version of herself she couldn’t understand and forced to experience everything the girl did, she waited for the worst to come.

Vega didn’t care when the loose rocks tumbled, causing her to fall and scrape her palms. She barely took the time to wipe the grit from her skin onto her skirt as she struggled upward. She’d come to the tracks looking for salvation, and nothing could make her turn back.

In the distance, the locomotive’s single light winked through the trees, and the steam rolling from its tall stack dotted the skyline. Vega’s body trembled from the exertion, but her mind remained steady and her will stayed strong. Death would not take her by force and break her on his wheel.

“I…choose…when. I…say…where. I am in…control,” she said, huffing painful breaths between the words.

She lifted her skirts and stepped onto the old trellis, staring down her ever-nearing end. The tracks rumbled under her feet, reminding Vega of the young doctor as he’d mumbled on about months of pain and suffering—face always concealed behind the white mask.

How careless the man had seemed as he’d warned Vega that her body would decay like a corpse until the cancer destroyed organs, flesh and bone. Even his heart-stopping blue eyes had filled with a strange detachment as he tightened the band in his white hair and asked if she’d like something for the pain.

Afterward, she’d fallen into an abyss of self-pity and denial for weeks. But, when she came out the depression, she’d found the answer. She couldn’t fight death and win. Nothing would cure the disease destroying her body. But she could control how she finished it. She could steal death’s glory away.

In a final act of defiance, Vega closed her eyes and stepped forward to meet her doom. Screeching brakes and popping car hitches erupted around her. As she’d feared the engineer tried to stop, but to her relief, he didn’t have time.

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