A Glimpse into Darkness_Prequel of The Immortal Sorrows series by Sherri Wingler

A Glimpse into Darkness_Prequel of The Immortal Sorrows series by Sherri Wingler

Author:Sherri Wingler [Wingler, Sherri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-31T00:00:00+00:00


2 ASHER

Isabel. The girl drew me back to her. It must have been the blood. It sang to me, even haunted me. I found no peace until I returned to her. So I found her in the hospital. I stole into her room like a thief in the night. Her body was badly beaten. Bones were broken and organs were damaged. She endured great pain, and still, her soul was as bright and untarnished as a new penny. She was a temptation and a distraction. One I could ill afford.

I watched her sleeping for a long time. She slept fitfully, moaning occasionally from her many cuts and bruises. I had made a mistake. I should never have interfered with this girl. Letting her live went against every law of the known universe. Time and Fate decide such things. Death just carries out the sentence they hand down.

I found myself beside her bed, ready to stop her heart, and correct my mistake. My fingers hovered just above her chest. It was a simple matter of exerting my Will. My hand clenched and unclenched into a fist. I could not seem to force my Will to do my bidding. How strange.

She looked so small and pitiful in her hospital bed, too weak to recover on her own. Large bruises covered much of the creamy skin beneath her eyes. Foolish old monster that I am, I found myself wishing she would open her eyes and see me. Really see me, and not shy away in fear. Her eyes, I remembered, were green. The clear green of the finest emeralds.

Isabel twitched in her dreaming and whimpered in her sleep. Something uncurled inside me and sighed. I could not do it. I could not take her life. What is one life in the big scheme of things? It is nothing. Who, really, would I offend in letting her live? Fate and Time had overlooked this girl. It had not been her time to pass. I would harm no one in letting her live.

There is an old saying, about the road to Hell being paved with good intentions. I cannot say, in all honesty, if my intentions were truly good. My intentions were purely selfish, perhaps, but I came to a decision as I watched her sleeping. Something inside of me wanted this girl to live.

She would need to be strengthened, if she were to recover fully. Her injuries were too many, and too great. Just a few more drops of my blood would help her heal enough to get out of this wretched hospital.

A quick glance about the room revealed nothing sharp. No matter. A tiny surge of Will and the nails on my right hand grew into razor sharp claws. A cheap party trick, but it comes in handy every so often. I dragged the nail of my forefinger across the palm of my left hand and watched blood well up in the wound, thick and dark. I tipped the blood into her sleeping mouth as the wound healed and my nails went back to their normal shape.



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