CHAPTER 60 PART I

“ Hold on my daughter. Not you, not yet, not ever.”

The voice kept coming over and over, such thick darkness surrounding me. It was different than the darkness of that place I drifted to every time I went to sleep. This was a warm kind of darkness, as if I was just floating in heaven. It was a place where there was no pain, no heartache, no worries, just warmth and peace. I wanted to stay there forever but the voice came again.

“ Not you, not yet, not ever.”

It got louder and louder, a feeling spreading through me that I had to wake up and push out no matter how much I wanted to stay. I had to go back, someone needed me, having that feeling just pound through me to the point where I needed to get out, pushing out hard. Someone needed me, panic washing over me, pushing through the darkness, pushing through the dark cloud that wanted to swallow me. A voice screamed in my head, fighting to the point where it was suffocating, wanting to be free, wanting to get home.

Pain was the first