White Walls (The Asylum Trilogy) by Lauren Hammond & Pwl Editing Services

Author:Lauren Hammond & Pwl Editing Services
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: S.B. Addison Books
Published: 2012-06-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

~After~

I dream of Damien.

Not the sick, twisted, and dead Damien I saw in the forest a few days ago.

I dream of my Damien.

We're wading in a creek a few miles behind his house. We're both in our underwear and neither one of us seems to care. There's water splashing. Roaring laughter. Fingers caressing skin. And enough kissing to make my knees buckle.

Damien walks ahead of me as we leave the creek, but I remain a few steps behind. He holds his hand out to me, a needy look in his sapphire eyes. “Come on, Addy,” he says.

I remain where I'm standing, looking over my shoulder. There's a man lingering behind me. At least a half a mile away. I can see his form. Broad shoulders. Over six feet in height. But I can't make out anything else. I keep glancing between him and Damien. I feel drawn to both, even though the man behind me is a stranger.

Damien is starting to get impatient. I can tell because when I look at him, his eyes widen then narrow and he's folded his arms across his chest. “What are you doing?”

I frown. “What do you mean what am I doing?”

He points over my shoulder toward the guy behind me. “I know.” The word freeze when they leave his lips and hang in the air like warm wafts of breath on a cold winter day.

“Know what?”

“Don't play coy, Addy. You're not very good at it.”

I take a step closer and snap, “And what is it that you think you know, Damien Allen?”

Hate smolders in his blue eyes. “I know you know that man. I know that you're attracted to him. That you might feel something for him.”

I shake my head and cross my arms, spitting out. “Jealousy isn't very becoming on you, Damien.”

He lets out an insane cackle and storms toward me, eyes cast downward into mine. “I'm not jealous, I'm furious,” he seethes. “To think that I gave you everything,” he tsks and shakes his head, “I gave you my heart. I gave you my soul. I gave you my life. And this is how you repay me? This is how you show you're gratitude? By having eyes for another man when you promised me forever!”

At that moment, I snap. And that's something I never thought I'd do. Dead or alive, I never thought I'd ever lose my temper and snap at Damien. “You'll never let me forget it, will you?” I scream. Tears sting my eyes and I dig my fists into them, my balled-up hands shaking. There's a wild look in my eyes that won't go away. There's a ghost in front of me that refuses to fade. And there's an old part of me that just can't let him go. “Don't you think that that day plays in the back of my mind every God damned day? Don't you think that I would have rather died in your place?” I throw my hands up and shove him. “I

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