{"id":3579,"date":"2018-04-27T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2018-04-26T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T01:17:11","slug":"thirty-seven-01-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-seven – 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Marin’s point of view.]<\/em><\/p>\n

My stomach lurched and I swallowed back bile that rose unbidden in my throat. I couldn\u2019t. I couldn\u2019t lose it, not right now, not right this second.<\/p>\n

Keep your shit together, they need you.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was exactly what Thom had told me when I left him in our bed, fever-wracked and kitten-weak. We\u2019d been keeping it quiet, how bad he\u2019d gotten. We weren\u2019t going to be able to do it much longer.<\/p>\n

I just wanted to know what was wrong with him.<\/p>\n

I saw Phelan blanch and knew that he was just as terrified and unsettled as the rest of us\u2014he was just doing a much better job plastering on a brave face. He wasn\u2019t in denial. He was faking it, just the same as I was.<\/p>\n

Something was coming. It was just a question of what. Even here, even in the height of summer, storms didn\u2019t look like that and they didn\u2019t come like this. Never exactly like this.<\/p>\n

It had almost been a year since everything had come crashing down.<\/p>\n

I squeezed my eyes shut again, fingers tightening around my mug. I felt sick, swallowing back bile again.<\/p>\n

Who is it? Who\u2019s coming for us?<\/em><\/p>\n

My gut screamed a name but I wanted it to be wrong. I wanted it to be wrong so badly I could taste it.<\/p>\n

But I didn\u2019t think that I was, not for a single heartbeat.<\/p>\n

She<\/em> was coming and there wasn\u2019t a damn thing I could do to stop it, not this time.<\/p>\n

Brigh\u00edd had never been able to\u2014what hope would I have where she had failed?<\/p>\n

I turned away from them, gulped down coffee as if it would help settle my stomach. I wanted to scream, to run.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t do any of that. All I could do was wait.<\/p>\n

It was only a matter of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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