Broken Wings (A Romantic Suspense) (125 page)
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Authors: Abigail Graham
His thumb brushes between my eyes, rubbing the bridge of my nose, a little higher. His touch is strangely tender, but all I feel is pressure, not even the warmth of his hand. He rubs at that spot between my eyes and murmurs,
“memoriae”
.
Then he pulls back. The collar loosens, but that doesn’t matter anymore. Something cold and liquid is moving around in my head. I can feel it, like a sinus headache with a mind of its own.
“Please,” I whimper, “don’t make me tell.”
In spite of everything he’s just done his touch as he brushes the hair out of my eyes and holds me still is firm but gentle. Some dull unremembered part of me wants to curl up and put my head on his lap, wants to feel his fingers on my skin. I can smell him.
I know that scent.
“Shhh. Close your eyes.”
I press them shut.
“Lie back and don’t fight it. Tell me what you remember.”
My voice catches as I struggle for a breath that never comes. I hate this, hate this, hate this. I hate my body, I hate the world, I hate him.
“Tell me, Christine. Tell me how it happened.”
I swallow, by my throat is still dry. My voice is thin and reedy and I feel a boiling mass of shame and revulsion when I give voice to the words that haunt me when I close my eyes to flee the sun.
“A man sat down next to me at the bar. He said ‘this is what’s going to happen…’”
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