Soothsayer: Magic Is All Around Us (Soothsayer Series Book 1) by Allison Sipe

Author:Allison Sipe [Allison Sipe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-09T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

I stared at the ceiling when I woke up, unable to stop running through everything that had happened yesterday. The assault left me physically drained and I wasn’t doing much better emotionally. Everything Robert had told me about the Promised Ones got me thinking about Matthew and how normal he seemed. A pang of sadness touched my heart. Was nothing what it seemed anymore?

Last night had definitely been an eye-opener. I couldn’t deny what had happened but I couldn’t bring myself to think about what that meant for me and the prophecy. My life was changing and no matter how hard I fought against it, change was inevitable. Take it one day at a time, I chanted to myself.

I swung my legs over the side of the couch and stretched my hands over my head. Robert lay fast asleep on the floor, one hand on his chest, the other above his head. My heart gave a gentle tug at the sight of him and the memory of how intimate our conversation had been the night before. What was going on between us was something my nerves couldn’t deal with at the moment so I got up and headed to the bathroom. Ignoring the disaster that was my bedroom, I shed my cotton shorts and t-shirt and hopped in the shower. The warm water washed over me and helped pull my head out of the fog.

I needed to choose a path. Would I… could I step up and be The Waker? Or would I turn my back on everything? There was no way I could keep living in limbo, not with the very real threat of death hanging over my head.

I ran down the list of things that had come to light since meeting Robert in the bookstore. I smiled to myself, thinking about that day. It felt like ages ago. The second time I’d met him, at his brother’s wedding, he had stitched my fatal wounds back together with the touch of his palm. I decided I could accept that something beyond my realm of knowledge had saved me that night. And then there was last night to contend with. The firework show that exploded out of Robert and Lila was something I couldn't ignore. Magic or whatever you wanted to call it, was real and if I could accept that then maybe I could accept the rest of it.

Turning the water off my thoughts bounced around my head like an intense game of racquetball. Getting ready for the day, I threw on a black tank top and a floor-length white skirt I loved. I tossed my hair into a messy bun, not bothering to dry it and dabbed some concealer under my eyes to cover the whiskey induced shadows.

When I returned to the main room I found Robert sitting at the kitchen table reading a newspaper with a coffee cup in his hand. He wore a white, linen button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up and dark jeans.

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