Unhinged by Chani Lynn Feener

Author:Chani Lynn Feener [Feener, Chani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, Paranormal, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781533511942
Google: 17EBMQAACAAJ
Amazon: 1533511942
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-07-04T23:00:00+00:00

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She finished her story and kept her gaze on the ground. She’d never told it to anyone before, not like that, and most definitely not the part about her being in the afterlife.

The police had found her almost a mile down the river from the bridge. There’d been a large piece of wood jabbed straight through her side, a crack at the back of her skull. She hadn’t been breathing. The doctors later told her that the wood had stabbed one of her lungs, causing it to collapse in on itself. Amazingly enough, they’d somehow managed to restart her heart in the ambulance, affectively bringing her back from the dead.

Micah hadn’t been as lucky. They’d estimated he’d managed to avoid the large rocks, but had been held under the current too long. He’d drowned, and none of their attempts had managed to save him.

Hadrian had lowered her back down to the bed and was sitting next to her, so close that their thighs touched. Neither he nor Quinn had spoken since the beginning.

Spencer felt their gazes boring into her, his even more intense than her friend’s. Finally not able to bare the silence anymore, she looked at him from underneath her lashes.

The second she made eye contact he glanced away, removing the arm he’d placed around her and the hand on her hip. He stood, moving back over to one of the windows. Leaning against the wall, he pulled back the curtain to check outside, even though it was obvious that there was nothing strange there.

“Just so we’re clear,” Quinn said then. “You…died?”

She nodded.

“And actually went to the other side?”

“Technically she only made it to the river Acheron,” Hadrian told them in the same soft tone.

“Oh my god!” She dropped down next to her, shaking the bed in the process. The move jostled Spencer and a small sound of pain slipped past her lips. “Shit! Sorry!” Quinn sprang back up, only resulting in another too sudden movement.

“Be careful,” Hadrian growled, storming back over to them. He dropped to his knees in front of Spencer, ignoring her shocked gasp. She was still without her shirt, and he delicately lifted his palm, placing it over the bruise that had grown larger and uglier since they’d checked it in the bathroom.

“What are you doing?” she whispered, the words coming out breathy and strange to her own ears. Since when did she sound like that anyway?

“You’re bleeding internally,” he informed her in a detached voice. “I need to heal you.”

“You can do that?”

“She’s what?!” Quinn asked.

“The fall must have been worse than she thought,” he answered.

A warmth began spreading out from his palm, and the blue and purple splotch slowly receded, giving way to healthy pink flesh. It took only a handful of moments, and then he was rising back to his feet and pulling away.

Spencer tenderly touched the spot on her side, bracing herself for a pain that didn’t come. Blinking she lifted her eyes back to him. “Thank you.”

He shrugged, appearing completely impassive.

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