“Recovery Mission” part two excerpt from “ACCENDO” the 2nd Novel in “The Light-Bearer Series” and “FANGS and HEARTS” week!
Wikimedia Commons.George Washington Bridge 2010, Gryffindor
Tabbruis was still on the beach held down by Charmeine’s power as she was backing up. He had no idea she had this kind of mystical skill. It seemed her powers were growing and growing every day.
Charmeine said with venom in her voice, “I really wish you could stay there. You should think about how your lies injured me! I wish you could understand. Yes Tabbruis, you have ripped our hearts apart. You have no right to speak to me anymore as a wife, lover, or even friend! We have to live separately. My Tabbruis, my husband, my Champion has died! I have no one now!”
Charmeine started to cry so much her eyes were pools of tears and she said, “I guess it was all a bedtime story, a fairy-tale. Now, looking at you lying there being held down by my anger and disgust, it was all just a dream and my alarm clock has finally gone off.”
He gasped, “Charmeine, I am still your Tabbruis!”
She yelled, “My Tabbruis is dead! I loved and depended on him!” She threw her head up and looked at the blue sky.
Charmeine said in a strong voice, “All of my being wants you to stay in that spot until you realize what you have done by your lack of support and lies!” Then she laughed with malice in her voice, “Maybe I will…”
Tabbruis watched his wife, his love, his Charmeine walk off over the dune barrier toward the tunnels and parking lot. He could not do anything about it. Tabbruis was powerless. She held him in her immovable electric current.
Tabbruis yelled, “Charmeine! Charmeine! Release me now!” He looked at her hair shining in the sun and her body was reciting to him a siren’s call. He was excited just by her presence.
Almost to the tunnel Charmeine turned around and threw her voice 100 feet at Tabbruis in a whisper, “Oh yes, I have another power now… I know you can hear me! Aha! I found the limo.”
Tabbruis watched as Charmeine threw a flourish with her finger and he was released.
Instantly Tabbruis was in front of her and sternly said, “Charmeine! Do not walk away from me! Do not walk away from me ever!”Charmeine looked into his deep green eyes rimmed black with anger and sexual heat. She said softly, “Tabbruis, I want my life back. I want to come back to Long Island and teach again. I want to be Miss Charleen Davis again. This… we… will never work. Maybe you should have never rescued me in that parking lot. If I am truly the Queen of Light, I should have been able to defend myself. I should never rely on anyone to take care of me. I never did before I met you, and I was fine. I should have never trusted and married you. I don’t know what I was thinking. I should have stayed by myself. As far as that ring on your finger, its properties are not precious metals but cheap pennyweights.”
What Charmeine said cut Tabbruis to his core. He was shocked! His heart was encased almost totally now. He could not feel it even pump. However, Tabbruis had to get through to Charmeine! She could not leave him.
Tenderly Tabbruis said, “Charmeine, my love….” Tabbruis took Charmeine’s hand and the hand did not spark!
She looked at him through tired eye lids and they both looked down.
Tabbruis was taken aback and Charmeine said, “I don’t spark for you anymore Tabbruis. My heart is dead like my love is dead.”
Tabbruis in desperation said, “Charmeine, do you not understand you cannot leave me? Part of your heart lives in me, and part of my heart lives in you. We are joined. We are not whole when we are separated; therefore, we cannot live apart.”
Charmeine gently took his face in her hands and looked into his eyes softly saying, “Tabbruis, I will admit to being in love with you so deeply I do not know where I end and you begin. However, I think of you as my rock, my cool shade tree on a hot summer’s day, and my ocean which is always dependable with the waves coming in and out of shore. It makes me hurt inside in my heart knowing you did not trust me, knowing you did not believe in me, and most of all, knowing you lied to me.”Charmeine ran her fingertips with a feather light touch over his lips when he tried to talk and said, “You see Tabbruis, I depend on you to be my rock, I depend on you to be my shade tree, and I depend on you to be my ocean. When you do not believe in me or lie, my rock falls into pebbles, my tree withers and my ocean dries up.”
Charmeine whispered looking at Tabbruis with her worn-out eyes, “We should get to the airport for the battle. I flew here two days ago. I have not slept nor eaten. I do not have enough strength to fly.”
Charmeine wearily walked through the tunnel to the parking lot. She turned around and looked at Tabbruis and the air was blowing through his chestnut brown hair with the highlights all around it. His eyes seemed like pools of green liquid emeralds. He was standing with both of his feet out and his arms put over his chest like a shield. Charmeine thought, ‘Even now, he is nothing but a work of art in the flesh.’ She turned around and kept walking toward the limo with her head high while tears were streaming down her face.
Tabbruis lost without Charmeine…
Tabbruis was traumatized. Charmeine was his wife in Heaven and on Earth. They belonged together. He loved her. Tabbruis was angry and burned with a fire in his belly. He thought, ‘Why had Charmeine not trusted my judgments? I am the person with the military experience.’ However, he was livid because Charmeine said she would leave him.
Tabbruis was lost without her. His life revolved around this very beautiful and complex creature. His light, his breath, his laughter, his love was inside Charmeine. She was the only woman he had ever wanted to be with, let alone love on the Earth. Tabbruis needed Charmeine more than she would ever know. When she left, it was a wonder he had not lost his mind.
Tabbruis got into the limo after Charmeine. She slid across the seat to the other side as far as she could to be away from Tabbruis. She kept her head turned towards the window. Irritated, Tabbruis asked, “Driver privacy please?” The window between the seats came up.
As the limo started to make its down William Floyd Parkway, he turned and said, “I feel like I am damned at whatever I say to you.” Tabbruis could see Charmeine’s reflection in the glass. He saw her close her eyes taking in what he had said.
Trying to start some kind of dialogue with her, Tabbruis said, “We have relocated the squad to Athens, Greece to prepare for the battle. I have moved all your things. Once we get on the plane, you can eat.”Charmeine did not respond to him.
Tabbruis sensed Charmeine’s heart rate was slow and could feel the immense stress in her body. His heart was not doing any better, it was slowing and there was nothing he could do about it. Tabbruis thought, ‘I really wish I could hypnotize her now.’
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Fairy tales and happy endings…
We all want them and, in fact, we need them.
It is up to our inner strength, acceptance of what we have no control over and the wealth of love we shower upon our loved ones that make our happiness come true.
Today, give your loved one understanding and listen to them… for without love we are nothing but empty.
I have loved this song because of the line, “Gotta do what you can to keep your love alive”
PLUS I used to cruise in my ’60 Fury and have this song full blast on my AM Radio!
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