Silent Heart by Susan Simone

Author:Susan Simone [Simone, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J Ellington Ashton Press
Published: 2013-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

I woke on horseback, dangling uncomfortably by my stomach, the boots of the man who had me swaying with the pace of the horse in my face. The morning sun burned my eyes causing explosions of pain to wrack my head. I was dizzy and disoriented, lost in the never ending sea of grass that was upside down in my sight. My back ached, and my fingers and toes were numb, and my mouth painfully dry. I could almost feel the insides of my cheeks cracking like dried lips when I tried to swallow. None of this affected me; none of this moved me to stir.

I blinked trying to remember what happened and kept seeing Stone’s limp body on the dark grass. This is what finally made me move. I covered my face in such desperate despair I thought my heart would break in two. Without Bear, I needed Stone. Without Stone, I needed Bear. I couldn’t live without both of them, my heart wasn’t strong enough. Those two men owned so much of me that without them there wasn’t anything left for me to live with.

If I groaned or they saw me move, they ignored me. I rode limp, disregarding the pain in my chest and stomach for what seemed hours. I was haunted by my promise to Stone to fight but all I could do was lay there wilted in my own grief. I wanted to scream thinking of him dying out there all alone in the middle of the wastelands. I had to get back there somehow and bury him, but if I managed to get free now, I’d never outrun the men. I had to hold my panic in and think before I acted for once. I had to come up with something. Anything. They could kill me after I took care of my business, but I had to at least tend to his body. I never got to bury Bear.

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