Prodigal Son (The Order of Vampires Book 3) by Lydia Michaels

Author:Lydia Michaels [Michaels, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781737124481
Publisher: Bailey Brown Publishing
Published: 2022-12-26T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

He was there. Close. Cybil sensed him in the darkness. Fear gripped her tight. Why? Why was he doing this? He was always there in her dreams, seemingly as blind as she was rendered mute with fear.

He should have known her, but he didn’t. She hated when he lost track of who she was. That was when he crept in on her, surrounding her. Too close!

Her hands sliced through the air as she frantically pleaded for him to stop. The moment she signed the word, stop, he did. He never touched her—only watched her with those seemingly unseeing eyes. There was a precarious thread on his control, and she sensed how dearly he fought not to lose himself to some greater power.

Why couldn’t he see her for who she was? He should recognize her. She knew he should.

“Do you not know me?” she signed with trembling fingers.

Cold hands closed over hers, and her body shuddered. Never before had he touched her. She was on the brink of tears. She could see him when he kept his distance, but the moment he drew close to her, she lost sight of him. Nothing but blackness surrounded her, anchoring her there in this dark place with the gentle, but powerful hold of some phantom hand.

“Call my name, Cybil. Say it before it is too late, before I’ve gone too far.”

It was not her name on his lips that filled her with revulsion. It was the closeness of his warm breath upon her cheek that provoked her. She tried to tug her hands away to sign for him to let go, but his hold tightened.

“Say it. You know it. Let me hear you speak it. I cannot come to you until you allow it. Speak my name. End this anguish that holds me apart from you. My soul is tortured by the infinite time you will let pass before I can truly know you. There is no call until it forms upon your lips. Say it. Call me to you, and when I hear your voice speak my name, our paths and my mind will be clear. Save me, Cybil, before I am truly lost.”

Tears trickled past her lashes. She couldn’t utter a sound for fear of permitting his wish. Part of her recognized him, but here, in her dreams, she was different.

“You’re afraid, because you’re young. But soon enough you will be grown. My soul has waded through what feels like an eternity of lies, but you are my truth. My salvation relies on you. Every day you do not speak my name I go unanswered. Every passing moon I am closer to my final death. My dreams are lost until you speak. Your voice will remind me. Show me, Cybil. Say my name. Tell me all is not lost before I give up and lose my soul to an eternal hell far worse than the one I’ve been living. Help me.”

He released her hands, and she pulled away. For what was a sanctuary for him was a prison for her.

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