One Starry Knight_A Scifi Alien Love Story by Carrie Lynn Thomas

Author:Carrie Lynn Thomas [Thomas, Carrie Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Light dances around me. Long, golden tendrils of diamonds and dust swirling and bending around me, wrapping me in a warmth. I feel everything. Millions of hearts pound in sync with mine, their blood mixing with mine. I feel my father. I’m a little girl twirling across the kitchen in his arms, and my mother’s laughing, and we’re happy, happy, happy.

And I spin faster and faster. Too fast. Ice pierces through the warmth. Ice and cold seeping through my clothes, and flesh and organs. Freezing me from the inside out. The world wobbles and I wobble with it until an arm steadies me. I grip the attached hand tighter and tighter as I wait for the merry-go-round I’m on to slow.

“You can let go now.” It’s Zane who holds me up. I drop his hand and step back. Water is sloshing at my ankles, and I realize we’re standing in a lake. Not just any lake. My lake.

A scream draws my eyes to shore. We are a few feet from the beach and a blur of curls and pink and blue I recognize as Stella passes me. She reaches for Adam, who Zane is struggling to keep upright. There is no color to him now, his eyes are closed, no sign of life. I open my mouth to cry but no sound comes out, and I reach for him, but a strong hand pushes me out of the way.

It belongs to a man, nearly twice my height, taller than Mark, taller than Adam. Dark hair and gray eyes. Laris.

He looks past me, past Adam. His eyes narrow at Zane.

“You?” he says. Emotion ripples across Zane’s features. Confusion, fear, hurt. I’m not sure. It’s there and then it’s not, replaced by the I-don’t-give-a-damn mask. Light explodes around us, and I bury my head in my sleeve. When I look back, Zane is gone.

“Laris, help me,” Stella cries. Laris still stares where Zane stood, a stunned expression invading his stoic features. “Laris.”

Laris rushes to Stella, taking Adam into his arms. The frozen numbness in me melts, and I move to them. To Adam.

“He was using the Nexus. He needs blood. At least that’s what…that’s what…” They’re not listening to me. Their eyes dart between each other and back to Adam. Laris gives a slight nod of his head to me and Stella responds with a shake of her head.

“Hey, did you hear me?” I press my hand against Stella’s shoulder, urging her to look at me.

She glances at me and shakes her head. “Not now,” she mumbles. Together they take Adam’s arms, locking themselves in a circle only big enough for the three of them.

“Not here.” I overhear Laris’ words to Stella.

“The cabins are empty.” Laris nods and they bookend Adam like silent statues, making careful steps to the beach. Even with their slow, precise movements, I need to run to keep up with them.

“Please, please. Tell me what you’re going to do. Is he going to be okay?” My words, my begging, all of it is falling on deaf ears.

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