Rebel Heart by Tee Ayer

Author:Tee Ayer [Ayer, Tee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Infinite Ink Publishing
Published: 2020-02-28T06:00:00+00:00

13

Tattletale

I lay on my bed, cursing myself for something I knew I really had no control of. I’d killed a man today, a human being. And even though logic reminded me that he was dead already, had been dead for a while now, my heart wasn’t listening.

I’d killed over a dozen of the wraiths so far. And I’d only done it when I’d had proof that the demonic being was causing pain and mayhem. I’d found a pattern in the last months, as though the wraiths had come to the EarthWorld with a purpose—to inflict pain on whoever they wished to.

It was silly though, drilling down to that one single fact. Because I knew there was something else going on here that was behind the sudden rise in wraith possession.

Or, maybe it wasn’t that sudden?

I’d only understood a few months ago what my ability really was, what I was capable of doing, and had I not run into the first wraith purely by accident, I probably would never have figured it out.

And I only had a limited timeframe of knowledge to use as a reference. I’d tried to learn more about their vulnerabilities, ways to take them down. And I’d found very limited information on the creatures.

Worse, it wasn’t as though I could go around telling people what I was doing. Who knew how Storm or Grams would react? As it was, Anjelo gave me a hard time whenever I even mentioned the wraiths. And I was more than worried that one day he would refuse to help just to teach me a lesson, to force me to remember I had nobody else to turn to.

Both my wounds were neatly bandaged, courtesy of Anjelo’s steady hands. The off-white fabric was already soaked through on the front my arms and I knew the one wound where the blade had gone right through would be leaking blood onto the sheet beneath me.

But blood was the least of my current concerns. Pain, fire, lightning, agony. Those were the only things on my mine as searing heat filtered through my injuries as my body did its walker thing and regenerated torn and broken cells and muscles and nerves.

It was pretty damn cool if you didn’t think of all the pain that regeneration involved. But it wasn’t easy to avoid thinking about the pain when it was all-consuming. An older, more mature alpha would probably handle the agony much better than me, that was for sure. And especially since I was almost constantly at war with my walker side, I suspected my experience fell into the category of a newly shifted walker in their teens rather than an alpha with her twenties in sight.

I tried to focus on something else and had almost succeeded when my phone buzzed. I lifted it gently off the mattress, trying not to jar the muscles of my bandaged arm as I scanned the message.

“Damn you, Anjelo,” I whispered, gritting my teeth.

I spoke to Storm and he gave me a number to pass on to you.

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