Chapter Thirty-Four
I CAME OUT OF THE DREAM NONE TOO GENTLY. Coughing up a small pond, water leaked from my nostrils as I grabbed a sheet off the bed and wiped my face. Pushing my sopping wet hair out of my eyes, I stopped in mid-motion as the sounds and sights around me came rushing in.
No!
My heart threatened to stop altogether. I almost wished it had. Anything would have felt better than it breaking into a million pieces. I vaguely recalled setting my sgian-dubh, which I had in a death grip, next to the lamp on my bedside table. Standing up on autopilot, I walked over to the window and pulled the curtain back so I could look out. Cars swarmed the streets, horns honked, people on the corner talked loudly, and I could hear a television blaring through the wall from an apartment next door.
I walked into the bathroom and looked at my reflection in the large mirror hanging over the sink. I still had a faded bruise on my cheek and an almost-healed scar above my heart. Too bad my inner scars wouldn’t heal that fast. My heart constricted when I thought of the night I had just spent with Aldwin, of all the things I never got to tell him, and how the night we had just shared had really happened a hundred years ago.
I grabbed onto the sink, my knees shaking, and stared at the stone pendant hanging around my neck. I loathed the day I’d picked it up at the antique bookstore. I fingered the mark of Amerach, remembering how Aldwin had so lovingly kissed it. A tear leaked out of the corner of my eye as I grabbed a large, glass bowl of seashells off the counter and smashed it into the mirror, shattering both into thousands of tiny pieces. Stumbling into my bedroom, I wrapped my cut hand in a sheet and curled into a ball, letting sobs wrack my body.
Never again would I allow myself to love. Never again would I allow myself to trust. The only friend I had trusted tried to kill me, and the only man I had ever loved was ripped from me by the fates. I wasn’t going to let fate control my destiny any longer… fate could kiss my ass.
From here on out, I would make my own destiny.
Don't worry! The next book in the Time Warper Series releases on November 24, 2015.
Three months after Sage Hannigan time warps a hundred years into the past and saves the future, she is still trying to come to grips with all the she has gained… and all that she has lost.
All of her searching hasn't turned up the Cerberus Society or any creatures of the night, and she's beginning to wonder if she's gone crazy after all. The only things keeping her grounded are her sparring sessions with Matt and her weekly ritual of scouring the city for lowlifes to kick the crap out of, and even that can't keep her dreams free of the heartache and bittersweet memories she has come to loathe and… to cherish.
When blasts from the past—good, bad, and evil—come knocking on her door, will she be able to do what she has to even if it means having her barely healing heart ripped to shreds?
About the Author
Peggy Martinez is a full time Author who has over a dozen published works, including the Time Warper Series, the State of Decay Trilogy, the Contradiction Series, the Reapers Grimm Series, her middle grade Super Zero Series, and various novellas and serials.
When not writing, Peggy can be found homeschooling her teen son and four daughters. You may also find her packaging hundreds of boxes for her monthly box subscription business she founder just for readers! (Lit-Cube) She could also be spotted reading, making soap, dabbling in aromatherapy, watching gangster movies, prepping for the zombie apocalypse, or downing insane amounts of Twizzlers and Kazoozles. Oh yeah... and day dreaming about owning a small homestead or taking a dream vacation to Greece, Scotland, & Ireland... she could totally be doing that.
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