Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

Chapter 18

I wait as patiently as I can for Lenora to finish giving Kas a hug.She finally lets her go and kisses her on the cheek.

"I mean it.No more scaring me," she wags her finger at Kas.

"I promise, Lenora.No more scaring you,"

Kas smiles back with a nod before turning to me.She takes her hand out of mine and brushes her fingers on the side of my face.

"All I want to do is pull you into my lap and hold you all night, Baby, but I need you to tell us about your vision before you forget.Can you do that?"

"Yeah b-but," she looks at me with watery eyes, "Can you tell me if James is okay? Was that real or part of my vision?"

"It was real, Kas.Don’t worry, he’ll recover.We can take you to the hospital wing to see him tomorrow.Okay?"

Lenora squeezes her hand in reassurance.

Kas nods, looking at her hands for a moment.She collects herself so she can concentrate.

When she’s ready, she takes a ragged breath and tells us about what she saw.

"I thinkI saw some of the people who kidnapped me.There was a woman that looked just like Lenora, but maybe she was a little older? Or something about her seemed old, even though she looked young.She knew my name.She called me Iokaste.There was also a woman with dreadlocks and red eyes.She mind linked me, but it wasn't a real mind link I could actually see her words in my mind."

Kas squeezes her eyes closed for a minute, then opens her eyes and looks at the nightstand.She grabs her journal and pen and scribbles something down on a page.

‘Eisai dynatés.Empistéfsou ta énstikta sou"

"That’s what I saw," Lenora and I trade a confused look.

Kas has never remembered this much detail from a vision before, and this message in a foreign language is pretty specific.She only knows the little bit of Spanish that Marco has taught her.

"Looks like Greek.I will see if Musu can translate it,"

Lenora takes a picture of the page with her phone and sends it to Musu.

the future, like it usually is.It seems like it was a past life, but not one I already knew about.I was fighting

like if she tries to finish, it might make

sternum while she talks.Her eyes aren't really fixed on any one point in the

a mate bond?" I ask as gently as possible, but in reality, I’m feeling a tinge of jealousy that

it was

a mate bond.It was more like something connected our essences to each other," her voice is soft, "She said

special to you? What did she say?" Lenora asks, smoothing Kas’s partially

was important to me.She told me she would always be there for me and when she died, it hurt so bad.It made me have this huge burst of energy come out of my body.I felt like a bomb was exploding out of me.And when I looked around, everything was...well, it was all gone.As far as I could see, everyone and everything was destroyed.Burned and flattened.I

finally looks me

floodgates are about to

to tell us about her vision, but now she needs my support.I pull her into

arms around

her sobs, she says she didn’t mean to hurt James.She doesn’t

We all know that.

accident, but we can figure out

has become stronger every

leader that everyone

a scared nineteen- year-old girl, who grew up not being able to trust anyone around her.She was lonely, scared, and trying to hide from

dark part of her we all wish never existed.I know it

she is, but if there is anything I can

would she handle a situation like this? I don’t know and

Lenora's cell phone

at it and

"Is that Musu?"

are Greek.It means ‘You are strong.Trust your instincts'," she says with a knit brow as she looks at me rocking my sobbing little

my shoulders, and she

look before kissing the top of her head and kissing

a mind link.I'll

Leni," I mouth the words and watch her leave.I turn my attention back to Kas,

much faith in her as I do.I just

has calmed down, she pulls away from me slightly

"What's wrong, Baby?"