Read Online Possession by Catrina Burgess - Free Book Online Page A

because I
didn’t want to believe it was true.”
    “Stop teasing me.” I remembered watching him talk
on the phone back at the magic shop and how I’d been drawn to him then. My
feelings had just grown stronger each day we were together.
    “I’m only telling you how I feel. I knew you were
the one for me then, and I want nothing more than to be with you now. And I’m
telling you this so you understand… I would give anything to be with you.”
Sadness filled his eyes. “But I was brought up to believe that when your time
is up, it’s up. For me to come back like this…it’s not natural. It’s not right.”
    I cut him off. “But it was my fault you died. If I
hadn't been so reckless…so full of anger… I didn't care what happened. I only
cared about getting my revenge.”
    “If I had it all to do again, I wouldn’t do
anything differently. You didn’t force me back into the hotel—I went of
my own free will. I went to help you, to try and protect you. If I hadn’t been
there…” He stepped closer, his fingers coming up to caress my face. “It doesn’t
matter. You made it out alive.”
    “But you didn’t,” I whispered, my eyes swelling with tears. Rather than replying, he
pulled me into his arms again. I squeezed him tight before continuing. “I had
to bring you back. I couldn’t lose you. I couldn’t lose someone else I loved.”
    His hands came up and brushed through my hair. “ Shhh , I’m here
with you now.”
    I knew that he felt what I’d done was wrong, but I
would make him see that taking this empty body so he could be here with me was
the right thing to do.
    His arms tightened around me and I realized it
wasn’t something he would have been able to do a few weeks ago. I looked up
into his face. “You’re getting stronger. Soon we’ll be able to escape this
place.”
    His arms squeezed my waist. “Before we escape, we
have to decide where to go.”
    That was a good question. Where would we go? His
family had a target on my head.
    Before Luke’s death, before the asylum—before
any of it—I had brought forth zombies and caused a mass murder. Because
of those atrocities, the death dealers were not just hated by the populous—they
were hunted. Vigilante mobs had formed in the span of a few months, and a dozen
death dealers had been beaten. A few had even been killed. Death dealers across
the city now walked in fear for their lives.
    And it was all because of my actions. The Phoenix
Guild wanted me to pay for what I’d done. They wanted revenge.
    They wanted me dead.
    I looked into Luke’s eyes, pushing back my fears. He
was alive and with me. That was all that mattered. “We’ll figure that out once
we get out of here. We need you to get strong enough so that you can climb.” Our
escape would take some planning. A twenty-foot electric fence surrounded the
grounds. We’d have to turn the electricity off, sprint across the property, and
quickly climb over the fence, somehow avoiding the staff and security
surveillance at the same time.
    “But I can still only surface for short periods of
time. With the spell you did to bind me, I should be in control of this body
all the time. I’ve poured over every book in the doctor’s office. There’s no
reason that I can come up with for why I only have full possession of this body
during the witching hour.” He looked worried and frustrated.
    “So we’ll keep looking.”
    He took a step back and brought my chin up with
his hand. “If you touch another enchanted book, you could be possessed again.”
    I thought I had mastered the art of keeping
spirits out. I hadn’t been possessed since Wanda took over my mind and body.
But Morgana somehow got in. I looked at Luke thoughtfully, trying to gauge how
he would react if I told him my suspicions—that Morgana’s spirit still
had some kind of hold on me .
    For weeks I had been someone else, but the electroshock
treatment had somehow turned the tables. It had loosened Morgana’s