One True Mate 8_Night of the Beast by Lisa Ladew

Author:Lisa Ladew [Ladew, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Heat Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

23 – Leilani Loses Herself

Leilani gasped, then pulled in another breath and another, and another. The overburden of oxygen came hard and fast, filling her brain with a light-headed confusion that even touching Jaggar couldn’t dispel. She was hyperventilating and she couldn’t stop it.

The cat meowed again, louder. The sounds of a chair scraping across the floor and then spilling to the floor came to her, like someone had stood so fast they knocked their chair over.

“Oh no, oh no,” Leilani said, understanding crushing her. “I did it to myself. I did it all to myself.”

She clawed at her throat, hating herself in that moment. What had she thought would happen? How had she expected her mother to deal with what she’d done?

The cat had died, and she’d gone back in time to get the cat before it died. She’d done it again and again, but the cat kept getting run over in the present, so she’d “stepped through,” destroying the world as it was and creating a time spur, where everyone else in the world did not live the future that she’d had to live. But that was dangerous, the dragen had said so. And she’d known it was dangerous long before she ever met the dragen, hadn’t she?

Leilani held her head. She’d never had any “instruction” with this power of hers, never had anyone to guide her, and she’d made such a mess of it. Had she really never even asked where the power had come from, why she was the only one who could do what she could do? Maybe when she was young, before she’d known her mother hated it.

“What’s going on?” she asked Jaggar in a small voice, knowing, but not knowing.

“Your mom and Grey are up and in the other room.” Jaggar pulled her in there, keeping her close so she didn’t run into anything. She could hear her mom crying, soft sounds, sad sounds.

“I don’t know what to do,” Maile said.

Jaggar growled, low and deep in his throat. “Bastard,” he swore. “Grey’s got his arm around your mother.”

Grey’s voice came. “I’ll tell you what to do,” he said. “You double her medication, and then you get her committed. I know a place in Texas.”

“Oh no,” Maile said.

“They can help her,” Grey said. “The doctors can keep her… sane. They can keep her from… doing whatever it is that is bothering you.”

“I mean, maybe, but I can’t let her out of the state. She’s… she’s my daughter.”

Leilani reeled? Her fault. Her fault. All her fault. What had she been thinking?

Leilani pulled away from Jaggar, wanting to get off alone by herself somewhere. She forgot she was blind, forgot everything but the need to just stop thinking about what was going on. Which wasn’t possible, but her own thought loop and emotions were stirring her anxiety, making her want to puke and scream at the same time. She’d started having panic attacks once they put her in the Roosevelt, then stronger ones when her mom had stopped visiting for good.

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