Limerence: Book Three of The Cure (Omnibus Edition) by Charlotte McConaghy

Author:Charlotte McConaghy [Charlotte McConaghy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781760302238
Publisher: Momentum
Published: 2016-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

September 17th, 2067

Josephine

It’s hot. I don’t know where I am. Pain holds my head captive and I’m not sure I can open my eyes. In fact, I think they’re swollen shut. The sound of footsteps is all around me. I can’t see so I concentrate on what I can hear. Breathing. Lots and lots of breathing. There is a huge group of people surrounding me. A chill runs down my spine as I feel myself being lifted off the cold ground. I’m carried and the hands that hold me have fingernails that puncture my flesh. I know they’re not my people because they’re not talking. There are no voices being raised to give orders or ask questions. It’s too silent with only the rustle of limbs and the thump thump of my blaring pulse.

Where’s Luke? My head’s too fuzzy and I can’t remember what happened or how I got here—

The wall. I remember the wall. And Luke didn’t come. He wasn’t answering Teddy’s radio pleas, which means something went wrong on his end and god what if he’s hurt what if he’s dead?

I’m carried a long way with this terrible fear in my heart. I can taste blood and bile in my mouth. I count the seconds so I can work out how far I’m being taken but it’s a stupid endeavor because I have no idea where I started. I know the scent and feel of the tunnels, and I know that this isn’t them. I’m above ground somewhere, but I can’t think of how that’s possible. It lasts a long time. I move in and out of consciousness. I vomit from the nausea of being carried and the pain in my head. The mess goes all over me but my carriers don’t stop or comment.

Finally the air outside grows cool enough for night and we stop.

There’s a crack and a sting on my face. Someone has slapped me.

“Wake,” a deep female voice commands.

I manage to open one of my eyes just a crack. Enough to let the dim inky light of twilight fill my head. Enough to see the moon high above, just a wink of it. It hangs red, tinged with blood, and I understand all at once, like a blow, how this has happened. It all comes back to the blood moon. Somehow, it’s what has kept Luke away.

And instead of devouring me outside the wall like I assumed they would, the Furies have bewilderingly kept me alive and carried me god only knows where, and now as I peer up at them I see just how many there are and know that even though I may still be alive right now, it can’t possibly last long.

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