Emanate: Insight Series ((Insight) Web of Hearts and Souls) Read Online Free

couldn’t walk into that room with them. They would want answers, want to pull me away from this dimension. But…I didn’t have any answers just yet. 
    It was hard for me to be around Skylynn for any length of time. Our past was heavy on my mind. I was furious at myself for that. I hurt Skylynn, used her for gain, used her to appease my deepest desires. Her clear blue eyes and ‘don’t cross me’ attitude made that simple.
    I had yet to process all the memories of my past that were now mine again; in truth , more came flooding in my mind each day. I knew, though. I knew that I had met Skylynn long before the time I had become a Phoenix, that I made a promise to protect her, that I promised her lover that I would do that.
    I may have saved her life more times than I could count in our past, but I’d also held her flesh -to-flesh, and by holding her I betrayed a good friend that in this life has no memory of how honorable he was when I knew him: Aden. He has no memory of his pivotal role in my life. If it weren’t for Aden, I would have never found Willow in my first life. He guided me to this dark reality—in more ways than one.
    In turn , I hurt his girl. When I broke that vow, I didn’t remember that it was his girl, the promises I made. That is the curse of The Fall, in combination with the curse of the Phoenix. When you pass through both of those curses, you lose memories. They are still in your soul, somewhere deep, but you forget them.
    The thing is, Skylynn forgot, too. She forgot the details. When I knew her as a Phoenix , she was searching for an energy signature, an energy she felt bonded with. I helped her look, I really did, but I found Willow before she found Aden and I left her behind without even a parting glance.
    At one time , Skylynn was innocent. Easy to read. Easy to trust. But because I left her behind, didn’t think twice about it, she’s become colder and even further away from what she wanted me to help her gain. Life. Him.
    I’m indebt ed to her and Aden . It’s a debt that I have no idea how I will ever square. The spells that Skylynn bartered with, the same ones that inherently turned her into a shadowed soul, clearly state that no one can interfere, no one can just walk up to Aden and tell him she’s real. If they did—she will never come back, and he will live out each existence in agony, literally starved to death.
    My goal back when I knew her was to gain enough power to break those spells that chained her. I never came close to finding enough energy to help her. I couldn’t find enough because she needed the power of the dead, or at least that was how I read it. She needed the power of grief. My power was with the living, in fear.
    I told Phoenix we had to find a way around that, that we had to repay Skylynn for all that she had given us. He didn’t hesitate to agree. Though he still harbored enmity toward her for actions she had taken on this side of The Fall, Phoenix now knew that back then Skylynn’s lover, Aden, had saved my life, and in some way, recently, Skylynn had saved Phoenix’s soul mate.
    All brothers have a bond, one that words cannot touch. It’s rich with honor. In my first existence, I was Phoenix’s younger brother. We’d walked through hell together, thousands of years side by side. Phoenix would honor and repay any debt our family had, twofold. That was the Falcon way.
    For a moment , we both questioned if Aden had come to this side to bring us all back. For Aden was not only a member of The Selected in that past, he was a direct descendant of the leader of The Selected. No one knew the ins and outs of The Fall better than him.
    Even if that were the case, Aden is blind now. We would have to awaken him before we could figure out if he indeed knew a way to reset this life course.
    Phoenix told me he was going to focus on helping Skylynn, demanded that I let him do that. His excuse was that he didn’t think it was fair for Willow to watch me help her,