Tainted Light by Izzy Shows

Author:Izzy Shows [Shows, Izzy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tír na nÓg Press
Published: 2017-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The apology burned on the tip of my tongue for hours. I had never been good at swallowing my pride and admitting my faults. It was even more difficult when I wasn’t a hundred percent convinced I was at fault.

The next border between realms was visible when I finally snapped.

“I’m sorry,” I whispered so softly the wind threatened to steal the words before they could be heard.

Emily jerked, as if surprised, and paused. I stopped as well, not wanting to carry on without her. This was me bending to meet her in the middle. I couldn’t take back the apology now.

“You’re sorry?” She frowned.

It occurred to me this might have been the first time she’d heard those words from my mouth. I didn’t say them often, and we hadn’t fought before this trip.

“Yes. I shouldn’t have yelled at you last night or put words in your mouth. I should have just listened.”

“Thank you. I’m sorry, too. It was wrong of me to doubt you, especially when you’ve never given me a reason to think you would ever…turn. I was afraid.”

“I know. I’m scared, too.” I tried for a smile, but it was weak. “We come from very different worlds. It’s bound to cause friction now and then.”

“And we have rather different views on morality.”

Panic threatened to swarm me. “That doesn’t mean we can’t agree to disagree.”

“You’re right,” she said, nodding. “I admit I have…hang-ups about power.”

I quirked one eyebrow. “Any particular reason behind that?”

She laughed. “I’ve fought scores of demons for years and seen so many men and women give in to the power offered them. I’ve watched unable to stop what happened to them after.”

“Like the woman who died.” I kept my words quiet, fearing that bringing this up would drive her further away.

“Yes, that has a lot to do with it.” She looked as if she was struggling with it all over again. “But that’s not all there is to it. That was just the first straw. I should have remembered, though, that you’d made your own deal with a demon, and you didn’t turn out anything like any of them. It goes against everything I’ve learned.”

My brow furrowed. “Really? That can’t be right. I can’t be the only person in the world capable of taking on demonic power.”

She looked thoughtful. “That I’ve seen, yes. But, of course, I haven’t observed every case out there.”

What she said didn’t sit right. There had to be more people like me out there. I wasn’t anything special, just a girl who had stumbled into power and learned how to handle it. At the end of the day, I was nobody.

“There’s always an exception to every rule.” “And you just happened to come across the exception? Seems too much of a coincidence.”

She shook her head. “God has a hand in everything, and he always has his reasons for the way things happen. It’s possible he made you with the intent to allow you to house such power so that you could use it for good.

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