HauntingBeauty
Chapter Forty-one
DÁIRINN stared at the place where her brother had been and fear like she’d never imagined closed on her. She could hear her mother crying, hear Michael’s father sobbing, see the blood pooling beneath Danni’s body. And in her head, she heard her brother shouting, begging her to help him.
Her arms and legs felt stiff as she jerked free of her mother’s hands, crossing to where Danni lay. She knelt beside her, feeling the blood soak through the knees of her pants. It was already cool.
“What did he mean?” Dáirinn asked, looking into Danni’s gray eyes, feeling as if she was looking into a reflection of her own. “He said you saved Trevor. What did he mean?”
Danni blinked her eyes and her lips moved, but she couldn’t speak. She was dying.
“Come away,” Fia said, trying to pull Dáirinn to her feet. “Come away from her.” And then suddenly Fia stilled. She stared down into Danni’s face, her own blanching as her fear became something else. Slowly she looked to her daughter, Dáirinn, and then back again. Danni saw comprehension, disbelief, and anguish war for control of Fia’s emotions. And then something else gleamed in Fia’s eyes. It was love; it was remorse. It was pride. In that split second, Danni thought Fia had realized the situation—somehow put together all the missing pieces and come away with the whole picture.
Whatever she might have said was lost, though, because Dáirinn used her mother’s shock to dodge free of her grasping hands. Scooting closer to Danni, she demanded again, “What did he mean?”
Danni moistened her lips, looking to Michael, and suddenly Dáirinn saw the shadowy form standing over the boy’s body. It was his spirit. She knew this even as his eyes lifted to meet hers. Her body went rigid. She felt like a tether bound them, pulling them tight into a circle that couldn’t be broken. Dáirinn and Danni. Michael and his spirit.
She reached down and took Danni’s hand in hers. Leaning over, Dáirinn stared into the eyes that looked so much like her own. In that moment, another deep understanding seemed to wash over her. They were connected, though she didn’t know how.
Danni’s husband had said, You can change it. He’d said Danni had saved his brother, Trevor.
Dáirinn’s eyes widened as she snapped her gaze back to the spirit who’d materialized in almost the same way Mr. Ballagh had disappeared. An inkling of the truth hovered over her. Then she heard Rory’s voice, weaker now as he shouted in her head. Help me.
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