Empath Found: The Complete Trilogy by Colette Rhodes

Author:Colette Rhodes [Rhodes, Colette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-03-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter forty-four

I had no idea how much time had passed.

The cave was always dark, unless my jailors came to visit and lit the torch for a while. Food was practically non-existent and appeared at random. There was nothing to give me any sense of routine or the passage of time.

For the past, however many days—weeks?—I’d been here, I’d had a few small chunks of dry bread and just enough water to keep me alive.

Even that small amount of water was enough to make the place reek of piss and made me want to heave up my meager bread rations.

My arms, legs, hands and feet were all covered in dried blood from the multiple knife wounds that covered my body where the male abductor had bled me. It would only take a drop of my blood into the malachite healing crystal imbued with Marlen’s magic around my neck to heal me, but I was saving it. Just in case the madman’s dagger hit an artery or something.

Gods, how was this my new normal? Hoping the cuts from the knife I was regularly prodded with weren’t fatal. Things had taken a spectacular nosedive for me.

Aside from the multitude of wounds and my generally terrible condition, there was a burning ache in my chest where I usually felt the mating bonds to Marlen and Arthus. It was so painful it kept me awake while I tried to sleep my way through this waking nightmare.

For the first time, I regretted taking Marlen and Arthus as my mates—not because I didn’t love them, but because I did. More than life. I hated the idea that they were in this kind of pain too.

They’d have been so much better off if I’d never come to Avalon.

With each minute that passed, the endless darkness pressed in on me more and more, and the control I had to stop my thoughts spiraling into despair was slipping away. Physically, things weren’t going great for me. But mentally? The cave was only the first layer of my prison, my mind was the second.

The only faint silver lining was that my captors still hadn’t worked out what my gift was. While I sensed the female’s fury at my refusal to tell them and her irritation at how long it was taking to find out, the male was practically vibrating with a sick sense of excitement at every failed attempt. The greater the challenge, the greater the likelihood that my ability was rare and worth pursuing.

He reminded me of the Mad Hatter. He’d stroll in wearing his creepy gold bird mask and robes like it was the most normal thing in the world, and his emotions always bordered on gleeful, so I had taken to muting my ability in his presence because his buoyant jubilation filled up my chest like a balloon.

It was repulsive. I didn’t want to feel joy here. His happiness made my skin crawl.

When he wasn’t around, I’d unmute my abilities because, in my more lucid moments, I felt like I wasn’t entirely alone in my imprisonment.

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