The Keepers Box Set (Alchemy Series) Books 1-4 by Donna Augustine

Author:Donna Augustine [Augustine, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, New Adult & College, Paranormal & Urban, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Amazon: B00JYKNT2I
Publisher: Strong Hold Publishing
Published: 2014-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Cormac stepped into my room and shut the door, planting himself in front of it. Mine was the only other bedroom of the penthouse suite.

"Where are you going?"

I'd just thrown on my black jacket. Vegas had become unseasonably cool since the change and I wanted to be as comfortable as I could if I went out tonight. When I tried to recruit a group to figure out what the rippers were, Cormac had squashed the idea before I'd even gotten a bite. That didn't mean I wasn't still planning on doing it.

"Huh? I'm not going anywhere."

"You're going to lie to me?" He stood in front of the doorway and made it clear that he would be stopping me whatever way necessary.

"I'm going to go have a chat with Burrom, if you must know my every move. I didn't think staying in the casino was going somewhere." That wasn't a lie. I did want Burrom's help.

He eyed me up and down. He stepped out of the way but placed a hand on the door just as I went to open it.

"It's not your fault. When are you going to snap out of this?"

I turned to face him. "I'm sorry if destroying the world has thrown me into a funk."

I went and pulled the door open an inch before he slammed it shut again.

"Stop being so melodramatic. It was this or extinction for them and us. They'll get over it."

"What? In a few hundred years if we haven't all been eaten alive by the rippers?" I slammed my hand against the door out of frustration. "Don't you get it? I'm not like you. I care."

"Well get over it. And you better start realizing that I'm not going to allow you to do stupid shit that endangers your life just because your head’s all out of whack from misplaced guilt."

"I helped destroy their world! How is that misplaced? If I didn't think they'd be worse off without me, I'd let them rip me apart."

He inched closer until I was forced to give up some ground or have him on top of me. "You better cut this out."

"I know you don't get this. You're completely unfazed by it, but you can't scare me out of feeling guilty." My voice rose by the end of the sentence.

He backed off after I called him out on his bully tactics and took a couple of paces away from me, then turned so suddenly it caught me off guard. "Then what can I do?"

I slumped against the door, wishing he could make this horrible feeling go away. "This isn't something you can control. There's nothing you can do to fix this. You just have to give me time."

He pulled open the side of my jacket. "That's not going to fix it either," he said, motioning to the flask in my inner pocket.

"It's not like I'm stumbling around the place drunk."

"No, but when was the last day you've been completely sober either?"

I didn't say it, but I knew right off the top of my head.

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