Everlasting Apple by J Lynne

Author:J Lynne [Lynne, J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J. Lynne
Published: 2015-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

IV

The girl battled against the frigid wind that threatened to push her down into the deep snow. She grabbed the furry hood on her thick jacket, struggling to keep it over her head. The wind tunneled up her sleeves and goosebumps formed on her skin. Her long black hair flew out from the sides of her hood and covered her face.

She placed a single hand on the metal door built into the side of the mountain, trying to decide if she should pound on it and face her fate. Behind her, the world was empty and covered in thick snow from a raging storm that hadn't stopped in over thirty years. The girl wondered if it would ever stop.

They will kill you.

“Maybe that's what I deserve.” Her breath was visible in the frosty air.

Think carefully, Alexis.

“I'm not making the same mistake my mother did.” Alexis tried to block out the image of her dying mother. The jeweled dagger sliced its way into her mind. “She protected you and you brought her death.” She raised a fist and struck the metal. Her gloves didn't protect her from the cold and she felt the pain in her hand.

Within seconds, the narrow slat in the door opened and eyes appeared. “Do you have it?” the woman asked. “I'm not letting you in until I see it.”

Alexis reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out the perfectly red apple. “Let me in.” She held it up to the slat.

The woman on the other side slammed the slat closed.

Alexis lowered her hand and returned the apple to her pocket. She took a step back and looked up the mountain. The sky wasn't visible. She had never once seen the blue sky, the sun, or the moon.

The door slowly opened and the woman poked her head around the corner, beckoning Alexis to enter. The girl stepped out of the cold and inside the mountain. She removed her hood and noted the torches attached to the rock wall that led them down a narrow tunnel from the door to the middle of the mountain, where it opened up into a great room.

The woman leading Alexis pulled her shawl tighter around her shoulders, trying to warm herself, and waited for the girl to take in her surroundings. Here she saw a great library protected by the same organization that hunted her family since the apple had first entered the life of Sarah Givens centuries ago and made them aware of its existence in the modern world. The threat the organization thought they removed from the earth was back and stronger than ever. They had followed the apple through the many, many years that it passed from mother to daughter, killing any that got between them and the apple. Alexis's mother Nadine was one of their victims.

“What's your name?”

Leave this woman. Where is the old man? The apple vibrated in her pocket.

Alexis closed her eyes and waited for the voice to fade in her mind. She needed to concentrate. “I'm Alexis Givens.

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