Page 54 of Master of My Heart

Chapter Twenty

A dark place.

So dark...

Slowly, tiny golden lights appear near me, dancing around my body. I hold out my hand and the luminescent sparkles swirl between my fingers. A few land on my palm and burrow into my skin. I gasp at the tingling sensation. It doesn’t hurt, though. It actually feels good. Like breathing pure oxygen.

I hold out my other hand and more lights swirl around before diving into my palm and vanishing, absorbed by my body.

“Sabrina...”

He is calling me again. He wants me. He’s going to take me!

I hide in a shadow as he looks around. He doesn’t see me! He looks right past me!

But now he looks angry.

“I know you’re here, Sabrina,” he says in a low voice, walking around in a large circle. When he walks away from me, I let out a silent sigh. “You can’t help but come here. You’re drawn to it.”

The lights shimmer around him and I can see his cold eyes searching.

“I can feel you, Sabrina. You think you’re clever, removing your Immortality from your body? It won’t last, you know. It will return. I didn’t give it to you. It’s in your very being. You may think you’re hiding from me, but I know you’re here. I will find you.”

He closes his eyes. I feel him searching for me. The lights swirl around me and make me spin. I feel them touching me... My body willingly accepts their intrusion, even though my mind knows it’s dangerous.

“No,” I whisper.

When I fall to my knees, he hears me. My heart leaps in my chest as our eyes meet. His smile is cold and triumphant as he stalks toward me. I shake my head.

“No...” I scramble back, away from him, but his pace doesn’t change. “NO!” I scream.

“No!” Sabrina screamed again and forced her eyes open, seeing only darkness. The sparkles were gone. He was gone.

She held up her hands in front of her face and saw them glowing faintly. My Immortalness.

The door opened. She looked up to see Jayson standing there. He didn’t walk to her, though. Part of her was relieved. Part of her hurt at his rejection.

“Are you okay?” he asked.

She looked back at her hands, which had disappeared into the darkness again. She’d absorbed it. She was Immortal once more. And now he’d find her... whoever he was. And Khyan, too. Even worse, this meant she could hurt people again.

“I’m fine,” she answered in a broken whisper.

Jayson shifted from foot to foot. She could feel he wanted to come in and comfort her, but he didn’t want to be tempted again. She felt his emotions, his desires, more keenly than she had sensed anyone since she’d used the diamond back home.

“Go back to bed, Jayson,” she whispered, lying on her side and staring out the window into the darkness. A few moments later, the door closed and she was alone again. As she should be.

I’m fully myself again. And dangerous.

*****

“Do you want to talk about last night?”

Sabrina looked up at Jayson as he sat down across from her at the kitchen table the next morning. “Last night?”

He nodded. “You had another nightmare.”

“It wasn’t a nightmare...”

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