Lux (The Nocte Trilogy 3)

“Mom?”

There’s no answer, only loaded pregnant silence.

My hands shake as I wait for what seems like an eternity, but is actually only a second.

“Mom?” I demand, scared now.

Still nothing.

Then

A

Whisper.

“Oh, God. Finn.”

It’s my mother.

Her voice is hoarse and cracked and terrified and weak.

“My baby. What have I done?” Before the phone goes dead, before I can ask, she screams a haunting, shrieking wail, the torment of a mother.

“Finnnnnnnnnnnnnn!”

The line goes dead

And my heart goes dead

Because

FINN.

FINN.

FINN.

Chills run up and down my back, and goose-bumps form on my arms because somethingsomethingsomething terrible has happened to my brother.

My other half.

My heart.

I feel it.

Chapter Fourteen

I know it in my heart as I race out to the porch, as I stare at the smoke winding its way into the night sky, just a little ways down the mountain.

Finn is down there. I know it.

I know it

I know it.

I know it as I sink to a heap on the steps, gripping the phone.

I know it as I try to breathe and can’t.