The Rise by Nathan Parks

Author:Nathan Parks [Parks, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

Eve gasped. Her reaction was involuntary, and she could feel her body starting to shake. This was not happening! This was a dream—a bad nightmare—but in a twisted way, a dream coming true right in front of her.

Isaiah looked back and forth from the individual who had walked in and Eve. He had no words; but he also felt like he needed to say something, even if it was just for the sake of having words spoken in the sudden and surprising silence. He couldn’t. He was shocked as much as Eve.

“How?” the words finally broke from Eve’s vocal cords. “I don’t . . .”

“Hi, Eve.”

“Megan? How?” The Nephelium sat stunned as she pinched the back of her hand to make sure this was real: her best friend standing very much alive in front of her . . . the best friend whose grave she had visited so many times over the last five years but who clearly was not in the grave.

Eve looked at Megan and then Leah, waiting for someone to either come up with an explanation or a cruel laugh, indicating a very bad joke. She didn’t know if she should get up and hug her friend or become angry at her. Should she feel elated or betrayed? She couldn’t figure it out.

“Eve, this is where I need you to please just trust and listen,” Leah quietly spoke as Megan came in and stood to the side of the table.

“That night at the Vortex, we had a team that came across Megan while looking for Alfonso. They had no idea who she was, but she was in very bad shape. If left at the Vortex, she would have died there.”

“‘Would have’ versus actually dying like most of us—most importantly me—was led to believe?”

Her anger started to rise. She knew anger; it was familiar to her.

“Eve,” Megan stopped her.

She wanted nothing more than to throw her arms around her longtime friend and go sit on the porch to catch up. Megan never thought that this reunion would actually ever happen, and yet here they were. She knew that Eve had spent five years mourning a friend who was still alive in reality.

“Please, just listen. That night when the Alliance found me, they thought they had just found a random girl inside Arioch’s room.”

“Arioch’s room?”

Megan nodded, “I know you told me not to go back, but it was all I knew. Sure, I knew the club was no longer safe; but better the devil I know than the devil I do not. The only thing was I didn’t even know the devil . . . not the real face of evil.”

“Arioch and Denora used my drugged stupor to, in essence, kidnap me. They used me that night for a ritual that left me pregnant and on the edge of death.”

“What? Wait . . . they did what?” Isaiah cut in.

He was stunned. He had been told that night that they had gotten Megan out, but then later that story was refuted.

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