Protect Her: Part 10 by Ivy Sinclair

Author:Ivy Sinclair [Sinclair, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Creek Press
Published: 2015-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX –PAIGE

I felt stupid for not thinking about what she said sooner. We were in my head. Of course, I could go back to that memory and check out if she was lying to me. But surely she knew that, so what would be the point in lying in the first place?

That was when I realized there was a part of me that hoped I was going to wake up, and all of this had been a nightmare. Eva confronting me in my happy dreams and telling me my life was over and then finding out that Riley had been involved in my parents’ murder was surely the definition of a nightmare. I felt a sense of wallowing self-pity roll through me. There was nothing fair about my life. It had been a mere blip on the radar. I never had a chance. I was nothing more than a means to end, and that end was Eva’s rebirth.

“We’ll go see for certain,” Riley agreed. He was doing what he had always done. Protect me. But in the end, he couldn’t protect me from myself, and I was growing more uncertain by the minute if I was even worthy of it. There had already been enough death and destruction because of me. I wanted it all to end. I was tired.

“Enough,” I said. I didn’t want to listen to any more arguing. Riley needed to let me go. That was the sad reality. Even worse, there was a part of me that had already disentangled itself from him. I couldn’t process how hurt and betrayed I was by his actions. He had acted in his own self-interests back then. So had I. Our similarities continued to be shown to me, but I wasn’t so certain that was a good thing. What we had in common were the bad things.

On the surface, I understood what he had done was years ago. It wasn’t wrong of him to ask to be exempt from something like that in his past. But it told me there were probably far worse things he hadn’t shared with me, and probably never would. His black wings, which I thought were so beautiful, were nothing more than a further testament to that darkest part of him. It was a darkness that would always be there, no matter what he did. I was beginning to understand that now.

Riley wasn’t going to step aside. He never would. I brushed around him trying not to touch even a feather on his wings. I knew he wanted to pull me back behind him, but he hesitated. That was good. I didn’t want him to touch me. I couldn’t handle that because if he did, I thought I would lash out at him everything I had. Magic or otherwise. He was the target of all of the anger and guilt I held inside of myself.

“Let’s go there,” I agreed. I snapped my fingers, not really because I needed to but because the action gave the appropriate dramatic effect that I was looking for.

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