The Reckoning by L.L. Muir

Author:L.L. Muir [Muir, L.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Green Toed Fairy
Published: 2019-11-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Soni drove home, numb.

She wasn’t an idiot. She knew Simon had been trying to push her away for her own sake. But he still loved her. She was sure of it. Only the strongest emotion made him tangible, and since he couldn’t hate her, it had to be love.

It had to be.

But no matter how many times she repeated the argument in her head, and out loud, it didn’t take away the sting of his rejection. And by the time she got to her house, which was thankfully empty of prying parents, that sting had pushed her over the edge. She was furious.

He doesn’t want me around? Fine!

She snatched the map of Culloden off the wall of her room. One thumbtack held and the whole thing ripped in half. It was surprisingly satisfying. The rest of her posters followed, and if they were still intact, she ripped them over and over and threw the pieces in the air. She ripped books in half that she’d collected for years. The little teddy bear in Highlander regalia was next. She didn’t have the heart to rip its head off, so she threw it like a baseball, as hard as she could, down the hallway.

It wasn’t until she had finished stripping the room of anything that reminded her of Simon and the rest of her 79, that she realized how completely they’d dominated her life. Without them, her walls were bare. Her shelves. Even the little cedar lockbox she’d gotten for her birthday was filled with lists of their names, descriptions of their lives.

Their lives. Not mine.

She shook her head furiously, refusing to accept that Simon’s words were true, but fearing they were.

She plopped onto the bed and invited the pain again, to refresh her anger, but all it did was make her greet again. The Rowena doll stood on a shelf on the far side of her bed, so she rolled over and reached for it. Nothing but a bad memory there, too!

Lifting it over her head, she searched for the rubbish bin, but stopped. The feel of the wood bark was much like the piece she’d tucked inside the talisman for Simon. She set the doll in her lap and wondered if she got rid of it, would she forget? Should she forget?

She was a Third. A great responsibility. But was there something noble and good she ought to do with her powers that had nothing to do with the 79?

Though she sat there for a long time, until she heard her mother’s car in the drive, she couldn’t think of anything that compared to the sense of purpose, belonging, and exhilaration she experienced each and every time she set foot on the battlefield. Who else was lucky enough to feel that, to know exactly where they belonged?

Fate or God had been telling her from the start where her destiny lay. And just because Simon wanted to be all noble and make her live a normal, ghost-free life, it didn’t mean the stubborn Highlander could change that destiny.

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