When Silver Moons Rise (Lost Immortals Saga #2) by KaSonndra Leigh Read Free Book Online

only have to turn around and he’ll be right there.
    My eyes fly open as I grasp at the air around me, reaching for him, but finding emptiness instead. Then the tears fall, and they keep falling.
    My mind shuts down one cell at a time. Even breathing takes a lot of effort. It’s like my lungs are a balloon, and his breath contains a magical type of helium; something that only the luckiest girl can find…and lose.
    “Faris.” I call his name out loud, hoping with all my faith that he hears me. Is it possible for us to connect even with so much distance between us?  I have to try. If he can hear me, then our link will pull him through whatever they’re doing to him in that horrible place.
    I can’t just sit around and wait to hear news about his death. I have to do something.
    “Chela. Can I come in?” Lexa stands in the doorway to my room. I didn’t even hear my best friend open it. She walks over to the bed and sits down. Her kind, dark eyes fill me with warmth after so many cold nightmares have left me shivering. 
    “Baby, you’ve been in this room for almost a week. Jalen and I miss you. Come back to us.” She strokes my hair and laces her fingers with mine.
    An image of Mrs. Needlemeyer’s corpse flashes through my mind. Lexa’s small gestures are just enough to make me sit up and bury my face in her shoulders. I’m terrorized by nightmares about Faris when I sleep, and I have visions of Mrs. Needlemeyer’s death when I’m awake. Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the nightmare with Jalen getting mauled by a wild bull. Eventually, I guess, I’ll lose my mind and find peace. Who am I kidding? That’s the coward’s way out of the situation. I can’t just give up. I won’t do that to my friends, or Faris. After a long moment, I pull back and stare at my best friend.
    “You got snot on my school uniform. Well, at least that’s a start.” I glance at Alexa’s face as she checks out her shirt. Looking up at me, she wrinkles her nose.
    “Eew, gross,” we both say at the same time. We burst out laughing, covering our mouths as we giggle. She’s right. Smiling is a good start. This is the way my friends make me feel, happy inside, a love that fuels the power that still sleeps in me.
    And then I hear a boy’s voice speak in my mind.
    The world around me disappears, and my heart stops.
    “Chela, I heard you. By the lights, I heard you,” Faris calls out to me, pain inside every syllable he manages to speak.
    At once, I’m seized by something that feels like a huge bolt of electricity. My body flings backward on the bed as jolts of energy surge through my body. The pain causes my arms to shake and my body to spasm. My back arches so hard I feel as though it might break. I find myself hoping for death if I have to tolerate this torture much longer. But these aren’t my thoughts. The images, the pain, everything that’s happening to me right now belongs to Faris. Our connection holds steady. Our love is real.
    “Chela! Oh God. Help!” Lexa calls out. “Dr. Prizeon! Micah! Somebody help us.”  
    My body contorts in ways I never thought possible. My feet turn inward and my arms burrow into the mattress. Another bolt shoots through me. I scream this time. Hands hold me down. Lexa,’s and someone else. Her face flashes in and out between pale skin and dark skin. Her dark hair turns white and then black again. I’m seeing images of Faris’s tormentor. I hate her. I’ll stop her. Why is she doing this to him? Rage courses through me and Lexa cries out as glass shatters. I’ve broken yet another window. Good thing Bess and Audrina are out of town, or she’d probably shoot me before this thing takes me out first. The pain stops just as suddenly as it started.
    Micah’s face is hovering over me now. He holds my hand and whispers in my ear. “It’s alright. I’m here now. I get to take care of you this time.”
    I glance down at his legs. He’s not sitting. The sight of my brother out of his