Ravaged An End of Days Novel

Chapter 29: Samantha: Souls in Transition

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Samantha

Souls in Transition

I was still hanging on Kait's arm, trying to process, and take everything in, while also trying to be there for Erin, when I suddenly realized what I needed to do.

When I realized that I had to have Freya honor her word and bless Elisa and Alissa with their birthright by becoming Valkyries. I owed them that much for them. It wasn't only for them—but Erik as well.

However, as I found the will to detach myself and walk with everyone else back into the bathroom, I sensed it immediately.

I was hurting all over, and I still couldn't look down at the trails of blood that had been left behind when she had ravaged my body, in the manner that she had.

The way that she defiled my state of mind and made me feel a way that I had sworn from my existence after it happened the first time it was the same.

And what made it worse was—I don't even know how or where she learned it. I never shared that information around Elizabeth. The only ones who knew—were the ones in this very room.

"Babe," I whispered to her as I fell back and nuzzled myself up against her. She felt warm, and very secure. Something I sorely missed at different times when we had been separated before. "There's something I wanna tell you."

"Okay," she gently pulled and guided me to the bed. She faced me and then used her eyes to ask if I wanted to sit down.

I sat on the softness of our bed, Lauren reaching for a blanket that we shared and often curled up with. A weighted blanket that was designed to help reduce anxiety. Lauren took it, and wrapped me it.

She was on one side and then Elisa took the other, with Ali behind me. A three-person protective ring.

Brittany had taken Erin into her room with Drea which just gave the five of us peace and quiet. And yet, for me, I couldn't shake it. I couldn't shake the feeling.

"Katie...." I said with an almost inaudible tone. I was still visibly saddened by the event, full of guilt. "How...How did...did she...."

She instantly reached for and wrapped her hands in mine. Again, the warmth of hers trying to melt and ease my pain. She knew what I was suffering through.

"I don't know sweetie," she spoke with sincerity since she felt like it was partially her fault. "And I'm so sorry that she knew that. You know that I never told. No one here, ever told her."

"It must have been Elizabeth." Elisa said as she reached up and wiped some of my tears away. "There's literally no other way."

"She's right," Lauren concurred. "We're the only ones who knew, and still never told."

"Do you think it was Dimitria?" Ali hinted at, and when I tilted my head back, her soft hands, ran through my hair, trying to calm me. "I mean, I get she's family, yet she was gone for years. Who knows what Elizabeth or Freya did to her, to make her talk."

That was a valid point, still something couldn't settle in my mind. But I couldn't think of that now.

"You have to know something love..." I said whispering again, while also moving closer. "I have to take the girls to Asgard so I can have them Ascend into Valkyries. I promised them and struck a deal with Freya to make it happen."