Taboo (A Tale of the Talhari Book 1) by Heather Elizabeth King

Author:Heather Elizabeth King [King, Heather Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HEK Publishing
Published: 2014-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Sydney sat up. She was breathing heavily. She’d had a dream. An awful dream.

She looked around and saw that she was in her bedroom, in her bed as she had been when the dream had started.

Relief washed over her. It had been a dream. Just a dream.

She’d started to lay back, then paused. Something was different. Her vision was blurry. She rubbed her eyes, opened them, but the blurred vision remained. She rubbed again, so hard that her left contact lens popped out. When she opened her eyes, saw the contact lens on her knuckle, she swore. Now she’d have to get out of bed to put it back in.

She paused. Oddly, her left eye’s vision wasn’t blurry anymore.

She removed her right contact lens and gasped. She could see perfectly.

What was going on?

She scanned the room. Everything was crisp and clear.

On her nightstand was a bag of trail mix. She’d only registered it because as she scanned the nightstand she’d begun reading the fine print on the back of the package that listed the ingredients. How was that possible?

“Peanuts, sesame sticks, wheat flour…” she read, stunned.

She could see perfectly. Scratch that. Her eyesight was better than perfect. How was that possible? She had a minus seven point five prescription.

Alaric appeared in her doorway, bringing her upright again.

“You’re back,” she said, relieved.

“You’re awake,” he said, at the same time.

Behind him, Joshua, Trina, Rhonda, and Paul appeared.

“You brought the whole team back with you?” she asked, staring from face to face.

Alaric came deeper into the room. “Do you remember what happened?”

She continued to look at their faces. Gone were the smiles she’d seen earlier. There weren’t any remnants of the determination she’d seen on their faces as they worked, either. Determination had been replaced by worry.

Why were they worried?

“What’s going on?” she said, still looking from face to face. “Something’s going on. I don’t have my contacts in and I can read the ingredients on the back of my trail mix. I shouldn’t be able to do that.”

“Do you remember what happened?” Alaric asked again.

She thought of the dream.

“It really happened, didn’t it?” she said, maneuvering in her bed so she could lean against the headboard.

“We’re not sure what happened except that you were bitten by a vampire.” Alaric came further into the room and sat on the edge of her bed. “And were turned.”

He stared into his lap at his hands.

“What happened?” Rhonda asked.

Again, Sydney looked from face to face. “Saul is here in Lynchburg,” she said at last. He came as soon as you left, Alaric. He came to kill me, but when it came down to doing it he changed his mind. He said it would hurt you more if he made me into the thing you hate most.”

Still, he didn’t look at her.

“So he bit you,” Trina said.

Sydney nodded. “Then forced me to drink his blood. I tried to fight him, but he was so strong. I felt like a toddler trying to fight a grown man. I was no match for him.

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