Ever After

Chapter 45



Lost



The next thing I remembered was the bitter cold, it’s all I could feel. My body ached and I shivered. I was afraid to open my eyes, was I dead? I had no idea maybe I was in heaven or maybe hell. I knew despite being a half-blooded vampire I was susceptible to death. It would have to be a massive trauma to kill me.

I was thinking falling off however many feet from that bridge might just qualify as a trauma. I laid there awhile afraid to move and terrified to look. I could hear the river still, and it was very close. I began to think that maybe I wasn’t dead now and decided I had to get up despite the pain.

I slowly opened my eyes and looked up into the thin willow tree branches. I turned my head and saw the riverbank, tons of driftwood and limbs were washed up in piles around me. I wrinkled my nose at the heavy musty smell of the river. I was in fact barley a foot from the river and the water seemed to be rising.

I was wet, muddy, and freezing and as I tried to sit up my head hurt so badly I cried out in pain. I curled my arm up to my chest quickly. It felt like it might be broken. I knew I had to somehow scoot away from the river. I was too close to the water, and it could be dangerous.

I crawled up the bank as far as I could and leaned up next to one of the ancient weeping willow trees. I could barley sit up, and each breath seemed to hurt. I had probably broken a rib or something to top it all off. I couldn’t do anything but lay here now. I didn’t know if half bloods could get hypothermia, but it sure as heck felt like it right now.

My mind raced, I worried the Dark coven might have hurt some of the Followers when they broke in the house. I worried Will might not actually be ok, even though I saw him standing up at the bridge. I also worried I was going to die here, all alone and never see William, my dad or Gran again.

I could hear all kinds of strange sounds all around me. I knew I was in danger if one of the Dark coven members found me here, or some kind of animal. I did smile briefly an animal and a Dark coven member were basically the same thing in my book.