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The Divide (Dreamland #2) by E.J. Mellow
Publication Date: October 15, 2015 ** Genres: Fantasy, New Adult
Molly finally uncovers the truth about the strange dreams that plagued her sanity for weeks. Now destined to accept a clandestine role, Molly must find the strength and courage buried deep to push forward and succeed.
With the help of Dev, the roguish blue-eyed man of her dreams—whose dark past resurfaces to haunt him—Molly prepares to test the limits of her newly awakened powers and set right a world on the edge of being consumed by nightmares.
But when an unknown shadow stalks her every step and a shocking revelation about her ancestry comes to light, Molly may find herself forced to make a decision that could leave her alone in the dark and standing on the wrong side of a divide.
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I'm the author behind the NA Contemporary Fantasy trilogy The Dreamland Series. When I'm not busy moonlighting in the realm of make-believe, I can be found doodling, buried in a book (usually this one), or playing video games.
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Prologue
HE
LEANED AGAINST the wall, studying the bare table before him. The surface was
white, smooth, and looked entirely uncomfortable. How would it feel to wake up
on such a thing? He couldn’t imagine it being pleasant, but then she’d dealt
with worse than lying on a cold surface. Frowning, he wondered if she was
scared to come here or if she was entirely fearless as she closed her dark
eyes—eyes that he’d seen burn with determination—only to open them to an
unknown beginning.
Staying perfectly still, he was unable to look at
anything but the emptiness. How long had he been waiting? How long had he been
trained to the same fixture? The answer didn’t matter. He would never miss
this. He promised her he’d be here, promised he’d never let anything happen to
her. A promise he failed to keep with someone else.
“Dev, you can wait outside,” said a soft feminine
voice. “You don’t need to stand around counting the seconds. I’m sure you have
responsibilities you are neglecting.”
“If I leave, I
would be neglecting my greatest responsibility,” Dev said evenly.
Elena sat on the other side of the room, a small smile
touching her features. She wore the traditional white robe of the Vigil elders,
and her posture was straight but relaxed. Her composure was something that
always, ironically, unnerved him.
“Does she return these feelings?”
At her disruptive question, Dev snatched his eyes away
from his target and latched on to another. She regarded him collectedly, like
she did all things, with an expression that suggested she had seen into his
future, flickered through his past, and held his current desires, wondering how
much he might know of them.
He stayed silent, both unwilling and unsure how to
answer.
“I must speak freely,” she went on. “I am both happy
and saddened by your situation.”
His brows pinched in. “What do you mean?”
She tilted her head curiously, looking straight into
his soul, and he did his best to seem calm, to not show how her ominous eyes
affected him. Terra only knew how her guards dealt with being around her so
much.
“I see your path as one that forks. As to which road
you follow, that is still to be determined.”
Dev breathed out a laugh. “Aren’t most things in life
still to be determined?”
“Perhaps for some.”
“Well then, is it safe to assume the cliché that one
of these roads is happy and the other sad?” he asked, quickly growing tired of
this vague game of prophecies.
“That all depends.”
“On what?”
She regarded him evenly. “On her.” She paused for a
moment. “And on you.”
“Me?”
She nodded.
“How?”
Elena smoothed a nonexistent wrinkle from her dress.
“I think the more important question is whether your heart is willing to
sacrifice again to find out?”
Dev’s stomach tightened, and he dropped his eyes back
to the empty table. Memories he’d buried deep within the ocean of time suddenly
gasped for the surface, but he smothered them quickly. A shiver of past regret
clicked down his spine. But that’s all it was, the past, and it could no longer
bar him from having a future. Is your
heart willing to sacrifice again?
He swallowed. “Was it ever willing?”
Elena stayed silent, allowing his question to echo
through the room, and after a moment, Dev went back to staring at nothing and
waiting for everything.
