The Mistwalker by Regine Abel

Author:Regine Abel [Abel, Regine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-22T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Kazan

The Mist parted before me, revealing the dream home I had built for Jade over the years, waiting for the moment we would be together at last. I hadn’t set foot back here since Jade and Patrick had started talking about marriage. It had hurt too much. And when they broke up, I’d been too busy building a life in the Mortal Plane to worry about this.

Jade’s words had cut deeply. I understood her fears and even admitted they held some merit. But she’d wished me for so many years, it never crossed my mind that her feelings might be so shallow she wouldn’t even try to fight for us.

The past nine years had been fraught with challenges. Yet, not once had I wavered in pursuing my course of action, wrapped in my self-righteous conviction that she needed me and that only I could truly make her happy. My entire self-perception had been steeled in the belief that I was her greatest Wish. Over the years, I stalked each new Wish she’d formed, watching their spark flicker and die. If they were good, the rare few who endured and thrived, I absorbed within me before they could become self-aware to remain her greatest Wish. If they were bad, I destroyed them to keep them from festering and tainting her wishing well, and absorbed their life force to fuel my own strength.

But as I stood before the massive mansion, my chest burned as if the blood pumping through my heart had turned to acid. The house was garish and poorly conceived; the whimsical creation of a child that would qualify more as a Chimera. She’d been fourteen when she’d first started speaking of her dream house. It reflected each phase of her challenging teenage years, from the gothic wing of the mansion with its dark stone tower and spires, to the futuristic, asymmetrical wing all made of glass with a solar panel dome. In the back, a massive pool boasted a replica of Versailles’ Apollo Fountain smack in the middle, eating most of the swimming space. Placing it against one of the edges would have made more sense.

The inside proved to be just as outlandish with a mish-mash of styles and colors, like someone couldn’t make up their mind and just went for everything. Today’s Jade would hate this place. As much as it broke my heart, she’d been right. All these years, I had fought to have with her the utopian life of the dream world. But with each passing hour, day, week, and month, my life companion had gone from an awkward teenager to a beautiful, strong woman. Through her wishes and dreams, I received glimpses of that evolution, but I didn’t truly know her… the real Jade.

My visit to her house in the Mortal Plane had been an eye opener, flipping on their head so many of my beliefs about her and what made her tick. Peaceful and cozy, it held an understated elegance, by no means presumptuous, and with a quirky edge that made it fun and inviting.

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