Lover_Avenged by Lover Avenged

Author:Lover Avenged [Avenged, Lover]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-24T00:37:10.336000+00:00

Ehlena sat upstairs at the crappy kitchen table, her father’s manuscript in front of her. She’d

read it twice at his desk, then put him to bed and come up here, where she’d gone through it

again.

The title was In the Rain Forest of the Monkey Mind.

Dearest Virgin Scribe, if she’d thought she had sympathy for the male before, now she had

empathy for him. The three hundred handwritten pages were a guided tour through his mental

illness, a vivid, walk-a-mile-in-his-shoes study of when the disease had started and where it

had taken him.

She glanced over at the aluminum foil that covered the windows. The voices in his mind that

tortured him came from a variety of sources, and one way was through radio waves beamed

down from satellites orbiting the earth.

She knew all this.

But in the book, her father described the Reynolds Wrap as a tangible representation of the

psychosis: Both the foil and the schizophrenia kept the real world away, both insulated him…

and with both in place he was safer than if they weren’t around. The truth was, he loved his

illness as much as he feared it.

Many, many years ago, after family had double-crossed him in business and ruined him in the

eyes of the glymera, he no longer trusted his ability to read the intentions and motivations of

others. He had put his faith in the wrong people and…it had cost him his shellan.

The thing was, Ehlena had figured her mother’s death wrong. Right after the great fall, her

mother had turned to laudanum to help her cope, and the temporary relief had bloomed into a

crutch as life as she’d known it had crumbled…money, position, homes, possessions leaving

her like lovely doves scattering from a field, going somewhere safer.

And then Ehlena’s engagement had failed, the male distancing himself before publicly declaring

that he was ending the relationship—because Ehlena had seduced him into her bed and taken

advantage of him.

That had been her mother’s last straw.

What had been a joint decision between Ehlena and the male had been spun into Ehlena’s being

a female without worth, a harlot hell-bent on corrupting a male who had had only the most

honorable of intentions. With that known in the glymera, Ehlena would never marry, even if

her family had had the station they’d lost.

The night the scandal had broken, Ehlena’s mother had gone into her bedroom and they’d

found her dead hours later. Ehlena had always assumed it had been a laudanum overdose, but

no. According to the manuscript, she had slit her wrists and bled out on the sheets.

Her father had started hearing voices as soon as he saw his female deceased on their mated bed,

her pale body framed by a halo of dark red spilled life.

As his mental disease had progressed, he had retreated farther and farther into paranoia, but in a

strange way he felt more secure there. Real life was fraught, in his mind, with people who

might or might not betray him. The voices in his head, however, were all out to get him. With

those crazy monkeys that flipped and tripped among the branches of the

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