Academy of Shifters: Lost Alumni by Marisa Claire

Author:Marisa Claire [Claire, Marisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Torment Publishing
Published: 2020-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

“Remi.”

The whisper tickled my brain awake, but my body wasn’t so wild about the idea. Groaning, I tried to roll onto my left side and immediately had regrets. A sharp pain stabbed between the bullet’s in and out points. I eased onto my back again, trying to ignore the beeping of the monitor and go back to sleep.

“Remi, do you copy?”

My eyelids scrunched even tighter. What was there to copy? I was stuck in a hospital bed. Now was not the time for administrative tasks.

“The mission... Mardone...”

I opened my eyes. The room was dim, almost pitch black. My head felt full and fuzzy, my mouth painfully dry. I picked at the crusts in the corners of my eyes with my right hand and then pinched the bridge of my nose.

The mission. Mardone.

I must have been having an aftershock dream from my nightmare at the beach. I shuddered at the image of Victoria caught in the floor, telling me I needed to get out of there. I shuddered even more remembering Laith’s bald head and orange robes, the way he’d called me child, of all things. Gross.

But Laith had not become a monk.

He had never even made it out of the United States.

A deep sadness filled me, not just because I missed him, but because of what I knew he had missed and how much it had meant to him. I couldn’t believe that I had ever been angry with him over it. I never even got to tell him that I wasn’t anymore, that I realized how selfish I was being. I could only hope that when our eyes met in the rearview mirror, my desperation said it all. If he died not knowing how I really felt…

My right arm slapped at the bedside table, searching for the button to call for help. I had a mother now, a real one, and she couldn’t be far away. She’d be sleeping on the couch in her secondary office down the basement hall if she wasn’t propped up on chairs in the infirmary waiting room. I knew I shouldn’t disturb her, but my brain would eat itself alive if I had to lay here alone all night.

“What do you need, Remi?” Diego’s groggy voice called from the darkness, startling me.

“Water,” I rasped, pressing my right hand to my rapidly beating heart.

Lifting my head off the hot pillow, I watched him rise from a chair that had appeared in the corner while I slept. As soon as he opened the door, light flooded in from the hallway, and his silhouette held up a finger. “Un momento.”

While I waited, I found the button that adjusted the bed into a more upright position. My left side throbbed from the back of my skull to my lowest rib, and I slowly became aware of the itch at the center of the pain. I moved my fingers to the bandage, attempting to find relief by applying the slightest pressure…

“Holy shift!” I yelped as hot tendrils of fire licked through my nerve endings.

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