Memories Drifted Into Soft Silence by Kyx Frost 217

Chapter 217 

Through the haze of the power’s control, I can hear voices around me. Panicked voices getting louder and more desperate by the second. 

“His pulse is getting weaker, Derek says, and there’s terror in his voice that I’ve never heard before. Derek who’s always so calm and collected, who always knows what to do, sounds like he’s about to fall apart. 

“What’s happening to her? Sarah asks, and I can hear her crying. Her hands are glowing.” 

I didn’t know my hands were glowing, but now that she’s mentioned it, I can feel the heat radiating from them. It’s not a good heat, not the warmth of healing. It’s the heat of something being burned away. 

“No, no, no,” Orion is saying, and his voice is getting more panicked with each repetition. 

“Athena, you have to stop,” he shouts, but his voice sounds like it’s coming from miles away instead of just a few feet. “You’re killing him.” 

But I can’t stop. The power has me completely, and it’s using my hands as conduits to drain every last bit of life from the person I love most in the 

world. 

I can feel Tristan’s life force flowing into me, and each second that passes makes him weaker while making the thing inside me stronger. It’s feeding off 

him, growing fat and satisfied while he dies beneath my hands. 

The worst part is that I can feel how good it feels to the power. How satisfied and content it is to finally be doing what it was designed to do. This is what it’s wanted all along, and now it has the perfect opportunity. 

‘His breathing is stopping,“Derek says, and his voice cracks completely. 

*Get away from her Derek” Orion shouts. “Athena, I need you to listen to me.” He says gently now. 

“He’s dead,” Derek says cutting whatever Orion was about saying, and the words hit the room. “Athena, he’s dead.” 

Dead. The word cuts through the power’s control for just a moment, hitting me like a slap to the face. 

I’d killed him. 

I’d killed Tristan, instead of saving him. 

“I’m going to try to make you shift, I need you to listen to my command” Orion says, and I can hear the pain in his voice, through the command. 

No. No. I shook my head. 

1 can save him, I’d save him. 

‘No, I manage to say, and my voice is hoarse and desperate and barely recognizable. “No, he’s not dead. I can save him.” 

“Ath?” I heard Orion voice, full of surprise. Surprise that I could talk, the last time I couldn’t. 

I close my eyes tighter and push back against the thing that’s controlling me. 

‘I can save him,‘ I repeat, louder this time, putting every ounce of determination I have into the words. “He’s not dead.” 

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Chapter 217 

*Athena,‘ 

Sarah’s 

mize is 

gentle bat 

firm, 

and I can 

feel her kneeling 

beside me. 

You have to let 

YOUL 

have to stop 

before 

You drain 

yourself 

“Okay. I trust 

you 

t 

hear Orion say and it 

8 everything I need. 

1 

won’t let 

Never. 

Because somewhere 

in the 

of back 

my 

1 mind, 

can hear 

Tristan’s 

voice 

too. 

full of 

love and 

trust 

and 

absolute 

faith in 

trust 

you. Ath. 1 trust you with 

my life.” 

They 

trusted 

me, 

and I’m not 

going to let 

that trust 

be for 

nothing. 

I’m 

not 

going to 

let him 

die 

couldn’t 

this ‘t control 

thing 

inside 

me 

The 

power 

is 

still 

flowing through 

me, still 

trying 

to take 

more even 

though 

there 

might 

not 

be 

anything 

Jeft 

to take. 

But 

underneath 

its hunger, underneath desperate need to 

its 

consume, 

sense 

something 

Fear. 

A 

The 

power is 

afraid, 

and that’s 

why 

it’s 

lashing out. That’s 

why 

it’s 

trying to 

take instead 

of 

give. 

I remember what 

Derek said about 

the 

power 

only hurting people 

when it 

feels 

cornered 

Or 

threatened. 

Right 

now, it feels 

both of 

those things, surrounded by people who 

terrified are 

of it, 

trapped 

in 

a 

situation