Gates of Paradise (Blue Bloods #7)

chapter Fifty

 

Gabrielle

 

could feel him. He was calling for me. His voice, so beautiful even then. He was saying:

 

Gabrielle. Do not fear. Do not fear me. I love you. I will not harm you.

 

Stop.

 

Stop and listen to me.

 

Gabrielle, my light. Stop for me.

 

But I knew if I stopped I was lost. I knew that he had planned this all along, from the very beginning.

 

As I ran away from him. I saw someone in the passages.

 

A girl.

 

She had beautiful red hair and green eyes.

 

My daughter. My daughter with him. I could see it in her sadness. The scar through her shirt. I knew what had put it there. I could see the remnants of your sword shattered in her soul; knew that its power had healed her.

 

I understood then, that this was not the end.

 

This was only the beginning.

 

But maybe there was hope.

 

There was a boy with her. A wolf. And I knew. I knew how to get help.

 

I could see the past, the present, and the future.

 

I brought her close to me.

 

I whispered in her ear.