Elusive Beings--A Shade of Mind--Book 3 by D. N. Leo

Author:D. N. Leo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Narrative Land Publishing

Chapter 19

Madeline kissed Ciaran again. She locked their thoughts together. She intertwined his pain and her pain. She whispered in her mind.

Let them go, Ciaran. You have to survive.

On the bed, Ciaran's right hand grabbed at the bed sheet. Madeline held it.

Let go, Ciaran. For me. You have to survive. You have to live for me. Let go, Madeline thought.

She knew he could read her thoughts. She pulled his hand off the bed sheet. Sweat streamed down his face. Madeline could taste it. She could smell the black water at the bottom of the canyon. She could feel the breeze coming from the darkness. She could hear the call of death.

She kissed Ciaran deeper. I love you, Ciaran. You have to stay alive. People depend on you. Let Laurent and the baby go. You have to let them go.

Madeline pulled hard at Ciaran's right hand.

On the screen, his hand let go. The woman and the baby fell into the darkness.

A tear trickled down Ciaran's face.

Madeline wiped away the tear. She had never seen him cry. He never revealed his tears or his pain to anyone when he was in control of his body. She ached for him. In his subconsciousness, he cried for a woman and a baby who were already dead.

The screen went blank. Then it came back up.

"Where's that?" Tadgh asked.

In front of them was an endless snowfield. Nothing but white snow. In the distance, a woman stood in a white coat. She turned around.

"Mother!" Tadgh gasped. "That is total fucking bullshit. That’s a trap. Ciaran will be able to tell."

"No, I don't think so." Madeline shook her head. This test was designed to target his weakness. He wasn’t prepared. He didn’t know. He didn’t even know it was a test. Otherwise, he would treat it like a game, and he would win. This was hopeless, Madeline thought.

Ciaran approached Jennifer.

"No, no, no!" In the room, Tadgh yelled and kicked at furniture.

On the screen, Jennifer turned around and smiled. It was the gentlest, most gracious, motherly smile Madeline had ever seen from Jennifer.

Ciaran approached her.

"Jesus Christ, you're an idiot, Ciaran," Tadgh said.

Then Ciaran stopped. He looked at her from a distance.

Jennifer started to approach Ciaran. A bullet came out of nowhere and hit her. She fell to the snow. Red blood pooled, melting the snow around her.

Ciaran charged toward his mother.

Tadgh slumped to the floor. "Oh, no, no. He's done. It's a trap."

But Ciaran stopped a short distance from Jennifer. She lay in a pool of blood. She looked at him. She tried to say something to him.

The snow under his feet cracked. He looked down. It wasn’t just snow. It was the ice.

A crack ran from his feet toward his mother.

She was still alive. She was looking at him. She reached her hand out to him. His mother. She would slide down into the icy water when the crack reached her.

Ciaran ran.

"No, no! Don’t go near her!” Tadgh screamed at the monitor.

Madeline felt numb. She didn’t know what to do.

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