Sinner by Blakely Chorpenning

Author:Blakely Chorpenning [Chorpenning, Blakely]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952235030
Publisher: Belle-Merrick Publishing
Published: 2020-02-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The clutches of life dribbled back, one scent and sound at a time. I was sealed inside a dead body—my corpse—detached from the conscious realm, only vaguely aware of the world carrying on around me, without me.

Putrid odors swirled, eventually melding with floral charges and the hiccups of unexpectedly mouthwatering aromas. The occasional whisper drew attention from my state of wakeful unrest. Unable to piece together the numerous shreds of life with enough strength to create a clear picture of what was happening around me, I could only float in a kind of darkness I’d never known. A safe haven rather than a punishment. All the while, I felt a tug awakening a memory in my brain of something beautiful and warm and golden. Not unlike the sun, but more in every way. Whenever this golden sun pushed through the dark curtains, it brought with it peace and kindness.

But death won.

Aware enough to know that I was lying on my back, I opened my eyes for the first time since… Since when? How much time had passed? When had I last blinked or slept or rolled my eyes at something stupid Lindy managed to spout without thinking?

Everything felt scattered. My emotions. My memories. My ability to grasp the least complicated bodily reaction. Opening my eyelids shouldn’t have felt like learning to walk, but it did. And the pain shooting through my head when I accomplished this feat was immeasurable. The retracting skin was hard rather than soft. My eyeballs were crusted, void of moisture, causing a sandpaper effect whenever I tried to roll them around. A sudden stream of liquid bathed them as the salt caking my skin stung relentlessly as it was expelled from my body. I wanted to wipe the tears from my eyes, though it was an impossible wish.

Nothing else had awakened from my first death. My limbs were heavier than I’d ever known them to be, and a coldness locked in my spine refused to renounce the power it had over my body. Even my neck failed to bend. My only view was of dirty, dented metal shelves through blurry pools of eye secretion and what was left of my body’s salt burning the delicate skin around my eye sockets. A harsh stream of light bit at my nerves like a vengeful angel siphoning Heaven’s battery dry.

I expected to hear or see someone at any moment. Wolf, perhaps? One of her minions? My expectations proved askew when no one showed up. I would have screamed for them had the ability presented itself. The thought crossed my mind that Wolf left me to die or, thinking me truly dead, discarded my empty shell. Had I been dropped in a landfill? Left for the city to clean up? Abandoned in a dark alleyway that even cats feared to tread? A black market body part farm? Or, maybe, a lonely necrophiliac with a spare engagement ring had lumped me out of anonymity.

Oh God, the list pinged on and on.

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