Free Celestial Beginnings (Nephilim Series) by Rebekah Damiels Page A

bloody and beaten, but still alive. She knew her father was just beyond the doorway, but could only see his head.
    “Where is she!?!” Trinity heard this from the other room and knew they were yelling at her dad. She could feel a spreading warmth fill her chest to have her parents alive and so close, but she knew it wasn’t going to last.
    Trinity knew what was coming and didn’t want to watch it all over again. She clinched her eyes shut and willed herself to wake up. It didn’t work! She pinched, poked, anything small that hurt, she did to herself to try and wake up. Nothing worked!
    Trinity could hear the man calling again for her to come out. She thought about getting out of the wall, changing what happened last, in fantasy at least. She couldn’t move. All she could do was stare.
    One man grabbed her mom’s hair to hold her still while he placed a gun at her temple. The other man was explaining that if her dad didn’t tell them where she was hiding in ten seconds, that he would give the order to kill his wife.
    10, 9, 8, 7…
    Trinity’s dad just sat there with tears streaming down his face, staring at his wife…her mother.
    “Don’t even think about it!” Hearing her mother’s voice made her swing her vision to her. She was so beautiful, even with tear stained cheeks. Trinity wanted to yell out, to tell them to leave them alone, but her mother told her to stay quiet no matter what.
    6, 5, 4, 3…
    Trinity frantically was looking from her dad to her mom, willing one of them to say something, but no one did. She looked over at her dad just in time to see him mouth “I love you.”
    2, 1
    The gun shot made Trinity jump. There was no room to move and her head hit a nail sticking out of the wall. She reached up and felt the side of her head and her hand came back sticky. She knew she was bleeding, but didn’t care. She just watched her mother die…again. She wanted to wake up before anymore happened, but no matter what she did, she couldn’t.
    She heard screaming, and yelling, and a constant thud. When she looked out the crack again, she saw two men yelling at each other about not being able to find her. The other took it upon himself to hit her father over and over hoping he would give up her location. He never did.
    They did one last search of the house, and then thought up a plan to make it look like an interrupted robbery; hoping that Trinity was out of the house so she couldn’t dispute the fact. The men gave her father one last chance to talk while pointing the gun at his chest. When he didn’t, the man holding the gun fired three quick shots that ended her father’s life.
    Daddy…
    She knew the rest. The men would take things and then disappear, but that’s not what happened this time. When they left, she fully intended to wake up, but she didn’t. Instead she heard slow, steady footsteps.
    “Trinity…where are you…?” It was a man’s voice; very soft and somewhat soothing in a way.
    She didn’t recognize his voice so she peered out the hole, trying to get a glimpse. She got none, but could hear him getting closer.
    “Trinity… Hello…?” Was he laughing? “Where are you now girl?”
    Trinity could feel that he was close but couldn’t see or hear him anymore. A few minutes went by and nothing. She had just started to relax when an eye appeared at the crack in the wall.
    The color of the eye was black and crinkled at the edges as if he were smiling. The sudden appearance made her jerk backwards.
    “Oh, there you are!” That was all she heard before a hand grasped he ankle and started to pull.
    She fought and screamed and kicked, but nothing would deter him. In fact, she swore she heard him laughing.
    In a split second, she was no longer being pulled, but now in a place that was almost completely black. She was standing up with her arms stretched out to the side. Something was holding her in the position because she couldn’t move.
    She saw something gray flash in her line of