Torment (Soul Savers Book 6) (46 page)

“Alexis, my
love,” he sobbed. “Don’t leave me,
ma lykita
.”

“Never,” I
cried. “I’m here, Tristan. Always with you.”

His voice broke into a
howl filled with a pain unlike anything I’d ever heard, sending
wracks of grief all the way through my soul, shattering it into tiny
shards. I lunged for him, needing to hold him, to return his embrace,
to tell him I loved him, but I couldn’t push through to him, no
matter how hard I tried or how many times I threw myself at him.

A hand landed on my
shoulder, stilling me, and squeezed. “Alexis.”

I shook my head. “No.”

“Honey.”

“NO!” I
yelled at her.

This could not be
happening. I could not be watching my husband, my soul mate, my one
and only true love who owned a piece of my heart and soul through the
veil. We could
not
be on opposite sides of it. I could no
longer breathe as I looked up at my mother, pressing my hand against
the stone embedded in my chest—a piece of Tristan’s
heart. I opened my mouth to speak, but the words became lodged in my
throat. I could only shake my head and look back to Tristan’s
dirt-smudged, tear-stained face that was still the most beautiful
thing I’d ever seen.

“Am I …”
I glanced up at Mom, whose face appeared as forlorn as my husband’s,
and then back at Tristan. I swallowed, hard, and tried again.
Blinking against the tears that flowed with each of my love’s
sobs, I finally managed to push the question out. “Am I really
…
dead
?”

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Kristie Cook is a
lifelong, award-winning writer in various genres, primarily New Adult
paranormal romance and contemporary fantasy. Her internationally
bestselling Soul Savers Series will be complete and all seven books
available by early 2015. She's also written a companion novella,
Genesis: A Soul Savers Novella, currently available. Over 350,000
Soul Savers books have been sold, with Promise peaking at #54 on the
Amazon Top 100 Paid list and at #1 in the Amazon Fantasy category,
and Wrath peaking in the Top 10 on 5 international iBooks stores.

She has also written
The Book of Phoenix trilogy, a New Adult paranormal romance series
that includes The Space Between, The Space Beyond, and The Space
Within. The full trilogy is available now.

Besides writing,
Kristie enjoys reading, cooking, traveling and riding on the back of
a motorcycle. She has lived in ten states, but currently calls
Southwest Florida home with her husband, a beagle, and a puggle, but
spends many weekends with her three sons at UCF, cheering on the
Knights.

First and always, my
gratitude goes to God and Jesus Christ, my savior.

I thank my family, too,
for being so understanding and supportive of my writing career, even
when it takes me away from them more than it should. Especially to
Shawn, Zakary, Austin, and Nathan.

Thank you to Brenda
Pandos for my beautiful cover and for being such a good friend. Much
appreciation to S.T. Bende for all of your help with blurbs and
endings, but most of all for your friendship. Many thanks to Kristen
and Tammi for keeping me on track and saving my sanity. Thank you to
Regina Wamba for the custom and exclusive photo shoot, to Dani Cooper
for modeling for the cover, and to Kristen, Jen, and Chrissi for
giving my words your critical eyes. Thank you to my agent, Italia
Gandolfo, for believing in me and my books, and to the Red Coat PR
family. And more thanks to the entire writing and book community.

I have so much
gratitude for my beta readers—Jessie, Heather, Debbie, Rissa,
Jewels, Stacey, Claire, Mindy, and Inga—who worked on a tight
deadline through the holiday season to make this book a reality. Many
thanks to the rest of the Crew and to Kristie’s Warriors, who
mean the world to me.

And thank you, reader,
for once again choosing to spend your time with my characters.
Because of you, I am living a dream and able to share it with the
world. God bless you all. (And please don’t hate me when you
finish this book. All I can say is, “Have
Faith
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Promise

Purpose

Devotion

Power

Wrath

Torment

Faith

Genesis: A Soul Savers Novella

Wonder: A Soul Savers Collection of Holiday Short Stories & Recipes

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The Space Between

The Space Beyond

The Space Within