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The sanctuary.
Knight's soft hands and broken whispers. His accidental, unmistakable love and complete and total acceptance.
His claiming.
His letting me go...
I wail into the darkness, the images cutting off with one last picture across the walls, only this one isn’t from my own memories, but his.
It’s Knight on his knees, alone in his room, wishing for a way to be mine.
I hurl more vomit toward the ground.
Hatred and confusion created a toxic cocktail that has me wishing I could turn back and throw myself off the cliff I was dropped on that lead me to this moment, but the spirits won’t allow it. I've entered their cave, and they want me out.
Once again, I drive forward, falling several times as my knees and pulse crunch and scrape against the hard ground.The skin on my knees splits open, but I don’t care. I need out.
Just when I’m sure the pain is too much, that I can’t take it and it alone will kill me where I crawl, a light appears at the end, the figure of a female shadowing the front.
“We’ve got a new girl!” she shouts, her voice raspy and thick.
My body falls, my muscles giving way as she reaches into the cave. Her hands grip me around my upper arms as she yanks me from the depths of whatever hell this cave is made of.
The girl stands above me, head tipped to the side with the sun that I haven’t seen in days bright behind her.
“Welcome to Exile Island.”
I was right.
ThisisExile Island, where the unwanted and unwelcome Gifted are thrown.
But I shouldn't know that.
That wasn't a real memory, me reading that book.
It was a fake one Knight gave me when he stole the truth from me.
I want to be angry, but I dig deep down, searching for that rage, begging it to build, but I can’t find it, and that makes me want to spew all over again.
Who cares if he did it to steal my pain and fix what he broke.
It's wrong. He killed my best friend because he thought I killed his sister.
I should hate him, but I don’t know how.
Not anymore.
Not after everything.
And for that … I hate myself.
Wait.
Wait!
ThoughtI killed his sister?!
I close my eyes, searching for the memory once more. A memory that once again isn’t mine.
