Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 256

Chapter 255

My eyes snapped open, and I saw Wendy and Toya staring at me from the end of my bed, and Sterling's back running out the door. "No!" I screamed after him. "Come back." But I heard my front door shutting, and I wanted to cry.

"What do you need, Amy?" Wendy came closer. "We will get you anything."

In my mind, I knew she was trying to be helpful, but my heart, my body, wasn't listening. I just started crying. "It hurts." The heat became unbearable, and I rolled over my bed, doing my best to relieve a tiny bit of of the pain. I snapped my eyes open to my friends. "Water." I was parched, the need was burning through every ounce of actual thought. I just needed to be cooled. To get relief in any way possible. Wendy nodded and ran out of the room. She came back with a big glass of cold water and helped me drink it. The cool water gave me a tiny bit of pleasure. The dryness of my throat disappearing for a second, before coming back stronger. I moaned longer and pushed her away. I looked at Toya. "Bath?”

"You want a hot bath?" She started out of the room, but I called out.

"Cold."

the tiny bit of relief the glass of water gave me. She went straight

To keep you safe." She swallowed. "To keep you from making a mistake." I started to cry and I couldn't tell you if it was because I wasn't going to jump the next male who called me, or if my friends loved me enough to stop me from making a mistake, I knew I would regret. "They will reach the bathroom." She continued, ignoring my tears. "We made sure before we locked

Rowan. I needed Rowan.

helped me undress, but froze when

them and smiled. "I'm under control. You can take off the chains." I sounded reasonable, but in my mind, I knew I was on the edge. If they unlocked me, I was running

stepped closer, and

was begging them to

away. "I'm going to leave you in your bra and underwear." She

Wendy came

agreed and then they helped me out of my pants. The cool bathroom air touching my skin made it pebble. This was torture. The heat was unbearable, but the tiny caresses made it so much

it rise off me in a haze like in the desert. I was boiling, and no one seemed to care. I cried out, but my friends just helped me into the freeze water. I screamed, but then

of her tears, but I ignored them. Why was she crying