Toska (Dark World Saga Book 1) by A.R. Kingston

Author:A.R. Kingston [Kingston, A.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-28T22:00:00+00:00

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Eternal Sacrifice

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fter a week of feeding on packaged human blood, Victor still has not gotten any better. Actually, he has only gotten worse. His daily feeding has increased from five bags to eight, and he was still not able to regain his strength. For the past few days and nights, all he does is sleep as his fever continues to fester. The cut on his leg has not healed either, in fact, it continues to bleed. It has gotten to the point where I am forced to change the gauze on it several times a day.

Victor’s health is not the only thing that has gotten worse. Lately, the shadows too have become suffocating. Every night now I feel their black tentacles slithering in the darkness, reaching for me. From within the deepest recesses of the building I hear it call my name. Whatever it was that I encountered at the clinic that day was still here, and it has gotten stronger since then, even in the day I feel its presence reaching for me.

I don’t tell Victor any of this; I don’t want him protecting me when he needs to focus on getting better. Not that he can protect me from this, not from the thing that hides deep inside me, waiting to claw its way out. Wrestling with the darkness on a daily basis is becoming tiring, and I am no longer certain that I can stop it from taking over. In all honesty, part of me wants to surrender to it, to let it consume me, because I know that’s what it wants. Still, I keep fighting it, I can’t help it, the fight is all I have left.

Guess I might as well admit that I had felt this thing festering inside of me ever since I first stepped foot in the city the night I found Victor. Some unholy being has been growing in the caverns of my heart, threatening to destroy me from within. So far, I have been successful at battling its temptations, but there are times I feel like I’m going to lose at any moment, submitting to the darkness within. No one knows this, I’m too frightened of it to tell anyone, but most of all I’m scared of what I might become.

Sitting against the wall I stroke Victors hair while I contemplate what may become of me if I give in to the urge of letting this beast take over. I sense that it wants me to become a part of him, join him on a quest for something greater. It has come here for something, I can feel it searching for what it wants, and I feel like I am one of the keys for him to achieve this. Something inside of me links me to this evil creature; I get a distinct impression that our fates are linked together, I just don’t dare ask why.

A robust shudder crawls down my spine as Victor begins to convulse in his sleep, forcing me to push those dark thoughts to the back of my mind.

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