Free Spirit: Book Two of The Bound Spirit Series by H.A. Wills

Author:H.A. Wills [Wills, H.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Callie

I wake up gasping with the taste of smoke and ash still on my tongue. The dream again.

First, it was the steel table, trapped and burning. This time, I was able to break free, but it didn’t bring me relief. Instead, engulfed in flames, I fed the fire-- my all-consuming rage manically encouraging it to spread. To burn down the house and man that made me a prisoner, the city filled with people that didn’t see my pain, the state with its isolating deserts, anything and everything until my wrath was quenched.

Except outside my prison wasn’t Phoenix, but Twin Cedar Pass with acres and acres of forest ablaze. And there they were. My friends-- burning, begging for help, and I stood frozen. Inept and cowering, as the flames were no longer my means of vengeance, but again a tool of my torture. I watched them burn until all that was left was Felix’s hate-filled eyes.

Adrenaline still pumping through my veins, I reach over for my phone on my nightstand to check the time. Twenty minutes until my alarm goes off. I could get up early, but the bed is warm and I’m exhausted. Taking a few deep calming breaths, I remind myself it was all a dream and roll over to snuggle back into my blankets. My heart skips a beat finding Felix standing at my window, staring at something outside, as if my nightmares conjured him to cast judgment.

“Felix?” I mumble, propping myself up on my elbows.

He doesn’t respond or seem to even hear me, his stance rigid and his attention fixed on something outside. That’s when I notice that the taste of smoke is not from my dreams, but real, a haze funneling into my room from the cracked door leading out to my balcony.

Fear grips me as I climb out of bed, and I can’t seem to get enough air into my lungs, each breath stinging with the whiffs of smoke. I don’t want to see, but I have to know. With my hands clenched into fists, desperate to hold myself together, I walk the few steps to stand beside Felix.

Nightmares and reality blur together. Outside is a bonfire that reaches the height of my balcony-- the same spot Felix’s family was burnt beyond recognition.

My body becomes rigid, each muscle turning to stone, as I fight to keep myself from going under again. I choke on each breath, black dots dancing around the edges of my vision, and somewhere there are terror-filled screams.

Within moments, my vision goes blurry and I see nothing but fire like it’s crawled up the house into my room and is now a circling cage. My father’s furious words echo that it’s my fault. That if I wanted to, I could make it stop.

No no no. Please no. Stop. It hurts.

My eyes burn with hot tears, and my clawed fingers rake down my face. The darkness is coming for me. It’ll trap me, and I won’t wake up. I drop to my knees, the carpet silencing my fall.

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