Light's Lost (Alacore's Apothecary Book 2) by Michelle Murphy & D. M. Almond

Author:Michelle Murphy & D. M. Almond [Murphy, Michelle & Almond, D. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Deedee looked horrible. For as long as I had known her, she was the light at the center of every room. No matter where we went, museums, pubs, shopping, it didn’t matter, people flocked around her. I always admired how effortlessly she handled them too, with kindness and charity. Plenty of people would have grown pretentious under that level of constant attention. Not my Deedee, though. I still remember the first day I met her. She walked into my dorm room, flashing that bright smile. “I’m your new roommate!” she gushed. We talked for a little bit about our lives leading up to entering college, and at the end of it she insisted we were going to be great friends. And she was right. We had been best friends ever since.

Some best friend I was, letting her get tortured by that psychopath.

I watched the steady rise and fall of her chest as she lay in her coma. Her light was gone now. Only sorrow remained. The room was ripe with it.

“I’m sorry I haven’t been here much this week,” I said as I held her lifeless hand. Her skin was warm, and she smelled like aloe. Drys had been taking tender care of her. I set down the small pail of cold water by her bed and took a seat. Deedee seemed to like it when I massaged her forehead with cool water. I wrung out the towel and carefully moved her bangs aside.

“Guess what? I finally survived a party without making a complete ass out of myself,” I said as I stroked her forehead with the towel. Deedee’s eyes didn’t flicker. She stayed sleeping, impassive to the world. “Well… maybe that’s not entirely true. I did do a couple embarrassing things.”

I half expected Deedee’s mouth to quirk up into a knowing smirk like she did when I made a joke.

“I wonder what that stuck up snob Valia would say if she knew a human was lying in a coma in the backroom of Free House.” I liked to talk to Deedee. Even if she couldn’t respond. Drys said it might help to anchor her to my voice.

“She’d probably have a heart attack,” I snickered. “I wish you’d been there, Dee. Can’t believe I lost my cool like that. She wouldn’t have phased you, though. You would’ve found exactly the right button to push to set that bitch on her heels. I don’t know what got into me. I almost hit her. Can you believe that? I never lose my temper.”

Never? Guilt pressed down on my chest. The last time I had spoken to Deedee was awful. Correction, I was awful. There she was, my best friend who had dropped everything to hop on a train and spend the weekend with me to help me sell my grandmother’s estate, and I acted as if she was nothing more than a nuisance.

“If I had known that might be the last time –” The words stuck in my throat. “Stop saying that,” I chided myself.

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