Delta: A Spy Novel

Chapter Thirty-Four

Hello...wow. This is pretty amazing. This is the last chapter of Delta. I know, right? Insane, huh. Well, I think it's a pretty bad ending - no doubt you'll agree - but I did my best. Perhaps I'll fix it up later. PLEASE read the author's note in the chapter after this...Sorry, it's not a chapter, i just mean you have to click to the next "chapter" to read the author's note. But please read it, it's very important. Thank you all for being so dedicated to Delta!!

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Chapter Thirty-Four

♥         Astrid       ♥

            “I have to go with the team to the manor. Can you hear me, Astrid? I’m going with the team. You’ll be taken to a safe place, but I have to leave. Do you understand?”

            I could hear the voice, filtering through the dense fog that covered my mind as I struggled against unconsciousness. It sounded familiar, a voice from a place long ago…before the fog had taken over me. When I opened my eyes, a wall of wispy grey smoke coat my vision, permeating my eyelids and swamping my mind in confusion. Dimly, I could make out a dark shape looming over me, a shape from which that voice seemed to be coming. Who was it…?

            “Astrid, baby, answer me. Please.”

            There was a fire in my lungs and throat. My head felt like a bass drum being smashed again and again. Woozily, I managed to drive away enough of the fog to make out a pair of blue-green eyes. A name formed on the edge of my mind, and my tongue fought to make it out.

“…Josh…?”

            I heard a load noise, like a heavy sigh, and then felt a hand on my brow but was unable to figure out how long it had been there. Making a large effort, I forced my eyes to remain open long enough for me to make out the face in front of me. Josh’s eyebrows were drawn together in concern, his face pale as he looked at me. He was moving his thumb gently over my temple, somehow knowing exactly where the source of my pain was and helping to numb it.

            “You’re going to be okay,” he murmured.

            “Charlie,” I whimpered, remembering.

Fresh tears squeezed out of my eyes as I tried to hold them back. Josh placed a hand over my mouth lightly, shaking his head as he inclined it to my left. A little confused, I managed to look around the room I was in – and then my eyes widened in surprise. The room was large but not very bright, with several pieces of furniture and a desk that suggested it was some sort of lobby. I had no memory of entering it – there was nothing but the bridge, swinging across the abyss.

And Charlie.

            “Where am I?”

            Josh lifted an eyebrow. His face looked strange, paler than I remember it, his green-blue eyes burning beneath a mess of blonde-brown curls that looked a little damp. Had it been raining? Something by the bridge…