Rivulet by Jamie Magee

Author:Jamie Magee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The second he vanished, the room iced over and I felt my heart break in two. Maybe he was wiser than me, knew that the less time we spent around each other, the better. Maybe that’s why he was leaving Skylynn to babysit me—someone he clearly didn’t care for. One thing was for sure: my guys never would have left me like that. I was getting a bitter taste of my own medicine, watching someone walk away right after they basically said that time and reason would not allow us to be together.

I swallowed my pride, clutched the key, and began to make my way to the playroom. Just before I reached the door, Skylynn appeared.

I couldn’t look her in the eye. “Listen, I know you have better things to do than watch over me. Go help them fight or whatever.”

“You’re the only friend I have, the only best friend I’ve ever had in my existence…where else would I need to be?”

“Flattered. I don’t know, with them, I guess. Looks like you guys have your own private club or war to deal with.”

“It’s not private, and you, apparently, are very much a part of it.”

“He doesn’t want me there. He pushed me off on you, someone he clearly disagrees with.”

“Do you want to know what Phoenix’s issue is?”

“Not really. I don’t need any more Karma.”

“He thinks you’re an echo, a shell, that the real you is gone, left the night of your death. The fact that Guardian could not bring you back tells him that he is right, that you are too far gone.”

I still could not get over how much Sebastian and Guardian had changed. I felt the grief I always carried in my soul intensify. I knew that the past that was ricocheting in my mind was gone forevermore. We had all escalated to some odd supernatural level. I was grieving for lost innocence, for a past I could never get back.

Bravely, I locked stares with her. “If that boy needs any more proof that I am me—dead or not—then there is no hope for him, and I don’t have time to deal with it.”

She grinned. “You’re messing with his head. Keep doing that. I know that nothing has changed. You may be a little confused, but you are holding on. As soon as he figures that out, he’ll get past his own dark thoughts.”

“Why does he despise what he is? Why does he not want me to be that?”

“He likes being a phoenix, all too well, and therein lies the problem.”

Those words made my stomach cave in. I guess I was reading him the wrong way.

“He likes it because it’s a perfect place for his dark energy to gain strength. I haven’t figured out why he is holding back yet, but I think he doesn’t want it for you because he thinks it will stifle the light you are, that your light has already dwindled down to nothing.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Opposites attract. Soul mates come from light and dark; he was the dark, you were the light.

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