Soul Bound by Holly Hook

Author:Holly Hook [Hook, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Occult & Supernatural, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781091996830
Google: ESxmzAEACAAJ
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

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I suck in a gasping breath as the world shifts back into place. I grasp a tree as I stand. My ripped shirt sleeve hangs from my arm. The lava pain remains and the darkness tries closing in from the corner of my vision, but with a breath, I push it back out again, clearing my view. The trees snap from purple and red to green. With each breath, the darkness clears a bit more.

I'm shaking.

What just happened?

Why am I standing out in the middle of the woods?

With another breath, I cast the darkness away completely. I'm in the middle of the woods. I've been gone for a long time, perhaps an eternity, and my brain is just starting to work again. I've been nonexistent for a gulf of time and now I've snapped back into existence, where everything from love to pain exist.

“Cayden,” I gasp, my voice stretched and strained.

Of course he doesn't answer. Cayden's back at Edwin's house, telling Brett how horrible I am.

With the thought, a fresh wave of pain fills my chest and crashes into my heart. I grasp my chest and claw at the fabric of my shirt. With that awesome realization, I let the Savage King take over for who knows how long.

Wait.

I'm grasping my shirt.

I look down to find that I'm still clothed—mostly. My pants have a new rip near the shins that spreads up almost to my knees and I'm still wearing my shirt, of course. My sleeve on the same side of my body is ripped as if I shifted partway and then decided not to go through with it. But other than that, I'm unscathed.

“Brie!” Everly shouts.

Footsteps. I straighten up. She and Remo are both coming. I smell them and hear their feet crunching leaves. The tone of her voice and the quick pace of their steps tell me they're running as fast as they can. Adrenaline mixes with the foresty scents of my pack mates. Everly and Remo step around a clump of trees and close the distance to me.

“I'm fine. For now,” I say.

Everly's more serious than I've ever seen her. She holds me in her wide-eyed stare. What if they smelled...what if they sensed...

“She looks okay,” Remo says to her. He's shaking. The big guy must have been ready to fight the Savage King and I don't blame him.

Everly stops fifty feet from me, afraid to come closer, and she holds out a hand and stops Remo from advancing. Their eyes are wide and full of terror.

“I'm seriously fine,” I lie. “I just had another episode, is all.”

“You were screaming.” Everly's voice is hollow. “We stayed back for a few minutes, and you just kept screaming out here. I know Cayden can be a jerk sometimes but I know those weren't heartbreak screams.”

So she heard him, too. Everly knows what I'm facing.

“I don't know what happened,” I say.

But I do know. Somehow, I fought of Romulus while I didn't even exist. Or he met some kind of resistance while trying to possess me.

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