Light Between Two Dark Places (When Souls Collide Book 2) by Ginna Moran

Author:Ginna Moran [Moran, Ginna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sunny Palms Press
Published: 2018-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

SOUL BOND

I SIT IN the front seat of an SUV, watching Luka pump gas. My mind spins circles, leaving me restless and confused. Angry. My head will burst at any second if I can’t focus on something real, anything to keep me from losing my mind completely. I feel Nikolai’s presence, and no matter what I do, I can’t shake it.

“My name is Skye Kne—Stone,” I say to myself. It’s getting harder and harder to automatically say Stone. I have to concentrate on my last name to do so. If I don’t, Knezha slips out, and the last thing I want is to be Skye Knezha. I’m not even sure I want to be Skye Stone. She’s useless, too.

If only I could be Skye Nobody without having to worry about anything in the world. What I wouldn’t give to face the real world I can’t even remember. The only world I know is the Knezha Family and Luka. My memories refuse to take me beyond what’s in front of me. I know there’s a big, wide world beyond the compound, beyond the cabin in the woods, but I’m afraid I’ll never know it or what it meant to me. Even in this car, sitting at the gas station, the world around me feels tainted. Corrupted. Nikolai owns this town and who knows what else.

Fury grips me, and I slam my fist against the dashboard. It does nothing to help the turmoil in my soul, and I’m not sure anything can. Shifting in the seat, I lean my head back and curl my knees to my chest. I hug myself.

Piece by piece, Nikolai chips away at my armor. How can it protect me if it has enough holes in it to be a sieve? What good am I? I can’t fall apart. If I do, there is no one to put me back together again the way I need to be. Not even Luka. If I fall apart, I’ll fall together perfectly for Nikolai.

“Skye? Let me in,” Luka thinks to me through the door, pointing at the lock I must’ve hit.

I want to scream I already have let him in, but instead, I jab my finger into the button to open the door. Luka slides behind the wheel without saying anything. He closes the door and rests his hands on the steering wheel.

I can’t take it. I need air. Thrusting my door open, I step out and peer around.

Looking at Luka hurts too much when I’m feeling so lost and out of options. He knew in the basement how much despair Nikolai brought in my life before we ran away. He knew how much it made me hate myself. But now? He’s driving me to face Deborah to do Nikolai’s bidding. Something I can’t see getting out of unless I fight Luka and run away. And I can’t do that, either. I bet he doesn’t even care what I’m going through now. He’d probably tell me exactly what Nikolai did—that this is how we protect our family.

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