Haunted Redemption by Rebecca Royce

Author:Rebecca Royce [Royce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Tell me again.,” I asked my mom to repeat the story. Three times so far and it still didn’t make any sense to me.

She sat next to me, both of us facing Levi, whose vitals showed better on the machine monitoring him. His blood pressure had lowered. His oxygen was good. I wasn’t in the medical profession, but that was what the nurse who had come in had told me. He was actually snoring, which the last time I’d slept with him he didn’t do.

“You and the boy we were helping vanished. We searched and searched for you. It was like you were just gone. No one could help. Three years later, you appeared at the van door. You didn’t make any sense. We tried to figure out what had happened. And then you were normal again, as though the whole thing had never happened.” She rocked a little in her chair. “Your father and I, we decided to play along. Whatever had happened, it was over. When you wanted to tell us, you would. But you never did, and over time you forgot the boy or that anything had ever happened.”

I still had no memory of any of it. Her words hadn’t suddenly triggered a memory or even a sense that I had any idea what the hell she was talking about. I tried to understand. “Must have been easier to simply pretend until you believed it yourself.”

“I imagine you know the feeling, considering how long you fooled everyone, including yourself, into believing you were a normal person with no special abilities.”

She made a good point although I was in no mood to hear it. I got up and walked to the side of Levi’s hospital bed. He didn’t open his eyes even when I sat down next to him. “I feel like I tricked him. I’m this freak who vanished for three years and can’t remember anything about it. I’ve done nothing but bring him pain. He has to worry about me, about his kids. I did all of it knowing there was a possibility he could never have a normal life. I didn’t tell him. I didn’t give him a choice. I was all about choice, to the point that I decided not to be who I am, and I gave him none of the same consideration. Just dropped this life on him without so much as a by-your-leave.”

“You got divorced. He’s free to date whomever he wants. But he keeps coming back. He took you on a date.”

My mother stating the obvious didn’t change things. “He loves the kids. He’s a very good dad.”

“He’s a very good man.” My mom placed a steady hand on my back. “We have to protect him.”

Yes, we did. Even if that meant I kept a wide berth away from him. If the shadow person wanted me, I wouldn’t hide. If I had to send everyone I loved far, far away from me, then I would. First, however, I needed some answers.

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