Free Fated Release (Fated Keepers Series Book 2) by Kristyn Eudes

is where I belong. Right there with her.
     
    “I'll be home soon my love. I promise. Just hang on for a little while longer. I love you Arsema. Never forget that. No matter what. Promise me.” I demand to her.  She needs to know these things. I intend on keeping every promise I have ever made to her. I just need her to promise to hold on a little longer.
     
    “I promise Lyon. Please hurry. I’m so scared.”

 
     
    Chapter 11
    Tris
     
    Orin decided it was time to head back to Alabama and he left me very little choice in the matter. My headaches and dizziness are back with a vengeance and truthfully I'm starting to worry a lot too. I try to hide most of the stuff from him. He’s already overbearing enough. I can't imagine how he would be if he knew how much all this was really affecting me. I just want to get home to Arsema. I feel like she needs me right now, as much as I need her. Screw this Shaman crap. We will figure something out without it.
     
    A wave of dizziness hits me right as I go to step over a giant ant hill and I reach for the nearest tree to steady myself. Touching my hand to my forehead, I shield my eyes while I wait for the dizziness to pass. It doesn't take long, but when I pull my hand away slightly rubbing along my face, I see it is covered in blood. I reach up with my other hand and pull it away covered as well. My eyes are bleeding like a blown artery. Orin glances back at me and immediately he is at my side with his shirt pressed to my face. I can barely breathe around it and so I snatch it away to hold it myself. When I yank I stumble back just a little and lose my balance altogether. I land hard on the cold frozen ground.
     
    I make a move to get back up and feel the dizziness hit again. Closing my eyes to try to will it to pass, I see something other than the normal blackness accompanying closing my eyes. Actually, what I see is in full blown color. Like a rainbow, all the bright colors are dancing behind my eyelids.
     
    I see a young girl, I'd say around twenty or twenty one maybe, is walking along a sidewalk gazing all around her at the area like she is looking for something. She is beautiful. Dark skinned with wild crazy hair spread out around her head in a halo of curls. She has dark brown eyes with golden flecks shining through the normal dull color causing them to come to life. I can see pain and acceptance written in her features. She is dressed warmly in jeans and a coat, but I can see jewelry adorning her fingers and wrist. On her neck is a strange tribal piece that looks like a snake crawling up a cane. For a moment I am so caught up in her appearance that I don't realize where she is. That is until she knocks on the front door of Grans house.
     
    I find myself back in the forest on the ground with Orin holding me in his arms when I come back to. I hear Orin’s phone ringing in the distance and think he really needs to get it, but I can't bring myself to speak the words to him. The girl in my mind is taking all of my attention. “Girl. Arsema’s house” I know I am not making any sense to Orin and it doesn't seem to matter. He is here holding me, consoling me. There will be time for words later.
     
    His phone starts ringing again. This has to be the fourth time in as many minutes. It must be important. Something that I think Orin realizes at the same moment. He stands and walks to grab his pack and after pulling his phone from the outside pocket, he presses talk.  His eyes grow wide with whatever knowledge he has just been given. Pressing end, he hangs up the phone not bothering to reply to the caller at all.
     

 
     
     
    Chapter 12
    Reine
     
     
    I stop in front of the house I have been lead to by the Earth. It is ordinary, yet beautiful at the same time. It is pale blue color with white shutters. The lawn in immaculate with beautiful flowers of all varieties throughout. My spirit approves. I see a small swing set peeking out from the backyard. It looks like it was