Beyond (Afterlife book 1) (20 page)

“
Jason?” I said
gently.

No answer.

“
What’s wrong with his
eyes?”

Rahmiel sighed again.

“
He is high. He started doing
drugs a couple of months ago when someone gave him some cocaine.
Now all he does all day is look for the next fix. He begs for money
during the day and spends it on drugs at the night.”

I felt like I had been punched in my
stomach. A tear slipped from my eye. Was this all my
fault?

“
But why?”

Rahmiel shook her head. “I don’t know,
sweetheart.”

I knelt in front of him.

“
Jason, please hear me.
Please let me help you out of this.”

He still didn’t answer or even look at
me.

“
Why won’t he listen?” I
asked.

I felt Rahmiel’s hand on my shoulder. “He
can’t see you anymore. When they took his mother and put her in
jail his heart became hard as stone. He is so filled with hatred
and anger that he is no longer able to see or hear you.”

“
But … that is so
cruel!”

Rahmiel wrapped both of her long arms
around me and made me feel like a little girl again. “I know,
sweetheart. I know.”

“
Will he ever be able to
see me again?”

“
Oh, he might, if he manages to
get out of the drugs and anger. If his heart opens up and is filled
with love again, he will be able to see,” Salathiel
said.

“
Can’t we help him? Can I
help him?”

“
He needs to ask for our
help. We can’t do anything if he doesn’t ask God for help. So for
now he is on his own.”

“
May I visit him
again?”

“
Yes. We have decided that you
will be allowed to visit him as often as you wish,” Rahmiel
said.

I looked at her with determined eyes. I
felt all this had happened to Jason because of me, because I had
meddled in his life. He was supposed to have died; now his destiny
was changed. The way it was now, he would have been better off
dead. But I was not going to leave him sitting there. I was
determined to help him get back to life.

“
Then I will come every
day. One day he will see me and then he will ask for my help,” I
said. I turned and looked at Jason. His brown eyes seemed lifeless
but somewhere underneath was the boy I loved. He was still
alive.

He had to be. He just had to be.

THE END

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About the Author:

Willow Rose writes Y/A, Paranormal Romance,
suspense/horror and fantasy. Originally from Denmark she now lives
on Florida’s Space Coast with her husband and two daughters. She is
a huge fan of Anne Rice and Isabel Allende. When she is not writing
or reading she enjoys watching the dolphins play in the waves of
the Atlantic Ocean.

Books in English by the author:

- One, Two ... He is coming for
you (Rebekka Frank #1)
http://www.amazon.com/One, two ...

- The eye of the Crystal
ball
http://www.amazon.com/The Eye of the
Crystal Ball

- Beyond - Afterlife #1
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond

- Serenity - Afterlife
#2
http://www.amazon.com/Serenity

- Endurance - Afterlife
#3
http://www.amazon.com/Endurance

- Savage - Daughters of the
Jaguar #1
http://www.amazon.com/Savage

- Broken - Daughters of the
Jaguar #2
http://www.amazon.com/Broken

Currently Willow Rose is working on the
suspense/horror novel: Three, Four ... better lock your door. It's
the sequel in the series "Rebekka Frank". It is expected to be
published fall 2012.