Matters of the Heart by Alli Reshi

Author:Alli Reshi [Reshi, Alli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, Sci-fi, Romance
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2017-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Is this all you can manage? You are pathetic. By now you should have killed them all. Where is the carnage, the bloodshed? How weak you are, a disgrace. Do something useful.

Jolting awake at the vicious, snarling voice I smashed my head into something as I jerked away. Pain mixed with the lingering notion of sleep as I tried to remember where I was. The words chilled me to the bones. Wait, that wasn't me shivering. Pain fading, I looked to my side and saw Devin shaking and muttering to himself. The monitor started beeping as his heart rate climbed.

"Devin hey, wake up. It's fine. It's a dream." I tried waking him, a hand on his shoulder. I didn't want to scare him, but I couldn't watch him in distress. Touching my hand to his temple I tried a different method.

"Devin wake up." I called in his mind. Hoping the disruption would be enough to get through the noise. Devin startled awake clawing for anything in reach to ground himself. I wrapped my arms around him. Soothing him best I could while he cried. Racking sobs that refused to be silenced.

"Make her stop Demitri. Please, oh gods and goddesses above. Make her stop, please." Devin wailed curling into me, head buried in my shoulder. I repositioned us as best I could when his IV cords grew tense.

"Shh, it's okay, I've got you. I'm right here. Who won't be quiet? Come on, talk to me. Just me, don't listen to them. Focus only on my voice." I hummed, rubbing his back. Now being more awake, I realized that the voice I had heard must have been one of the ones that Devin heard all the time. Sleeping wrapped around each other must have let me slip into a deeper part of Devin's subconscious, than what I had previously when talking with him telepathically. It did bolster my confidence about how he felt. Devin's mind would never relax that much, unless he still trusted me the same he had all those years ago. Though right now I needed to focus more on calming Devin.

My heart ached even more for him, but I kept all that separate. He needed stability now. If I did this right and was very careful. I might get my chance to help him. It could very well be my only chance in a long time.

"Mother, she keeps crying. I can hear her crying. She won't stop. Always going on about her poor baby boy. I can't stand it. I'm sorry I didn't mean it, it's all my fault. Is this my punishment Demitri? To have to listen to her for the rest of my life? I want it to stop." Devin confessed gripping me tighter. I couldn't hold back a whimper of my own. I ran my fingers through his hair. Oh, this poor boy, would the cosmos never give him a moment of rest.

"Listen to me Devin, really listen. That wasn't your fault. None of it was.

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