Soulless by Kelly Martin

Author:Kelly Martin [Martin, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Published: 2016-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

GRACEN

THE WEIRD THING IS THAT I don’t feel any pain.

I don’t even really know what happened, except Hart keeps yelling at me to move or wake up or something. Honestly, his words are jumbled like he’s in a completely other room from me. A fog, I suppose. I feel like I’m in a fog. Floating.

And I’m spent.

Whatever light came out of me, it feels like it’s been replaced, rapidly, with darkness. Darkness that is screaming in my head, pulling at my chest, fighting everything I am on the inside. It’s telling me to live, to wake up, to drink the blood I can smell under my nose. It’s telling me I need to wake up. I have a destiny. Something great to do with my life. It laughs at me, taunts me, tells me it knows what I want. What I crave. That I want the demon blood so bad I can taste it.

It’s all true.

It tells me to live.

I don’t think that’s a good idea.

What if Hart was wrong and I can die? Wouldn’t it be best to do it now? I’m weak. That light that beamed out of me nearly drained me. I’m tired. I’m cold. If not for the darkness filling my veins, flooding my thoughts, I’d feel at peace.

I want peace.

The darkness laughs. I can never have peace.

I have a purpose in this world.

My purpose is to destroy it.

I should fight my destiny.

As hard as I can, I push against the darkness flooding my mind, flooding my body. I want to give up. I want this to be over.

I want the blood.

I smell the blood.

I hear Hart crying, crying for me. Begging me to drink. Begging me not to go.

Why would he care so much?

Why don’t I?

Drink… drink… drink it… live….

The words run through my mind, strong at first, then fainter and fainter. It feels like I’m drowning. Maybe I am. Maybe this is what dying feels like. Drowning until it’s over.

The darkness won’t stop talking. Won’t give me peace.

Then I see her, my mother. She’s in the same alley she’d been in before. She’s smiling at me. Her arms are outstretched, and her eyes are twinkling.

“Come home, Gracen. Let me make it all better.”

Was that a vision or something I wanted? Does it matter? Yes, it does because I know what I can do to her…

I know…

Stay with me. I see the farmhouse in the distance. I’m at the pond with Hart. Only he looks like the Hart I saw in the caves, when I got to see his real form. Handsome as ever.

He pulls me up to standing as the wind from the approaching clouds whips my hair around my face. He places his head against mine and shuts his eyes as the rain starts to fall.

“Stay with me.”

I want to stay, but I need to go. It’s important that I go. The world depends on it.

The ache to be held in his arms is too much.

The need for blood makes my numb body hurt.

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