Fate's Surrender (Eternal Sorrows Book 3) by Sarra Cannon (android based ebook reader txt) 📕

wiser than any of the rest of them. He remembered things no one else had, even though he’d been alone for longer.

“I’ll explain more when we’re together again and have more time to talk,” David said. “There’s so much to tell you, but you’re right about our memories. They will all come back from our first lives once we get to the island. And so will the seal on this world. It will cut off the Dark One’s magic, and the virus will end.”

Parrish gasped and nearly dropped Karmen’s hand.

“End?” Parrish asked. “Are you sure?”

“I’m sure of it,” he said. “It won’t save the people who are already dead, but the virus itself will be gone. I believe the rotters will all die. I’ve been trying to remember if there was some way we could still save them with the stone or with our own magic, but I can’t think of anything. I’m hoping the island will help me to remember something that can save the dead in this world, but if nothing else, we can still save the people who are left.”

“And the other world?” Karmen asked. “The place where we came from? What do you remember about that?”

“You’re not any more patient in this life than your first,” David said, laughing. “I won’t have to tell you about that place. You’ll remember it for yourself, I promise. Maybe we’ll even be able to go back there after all of this is over but for now we need to find each other. We’ll be stronger together than we ever could be apart.”

Parrish nodded.

“We’re ready to do whatever we need to do,” she said. “We can’t exactly fly over rooftops, but we should be able to get one of the boats here up to Manhattan. Is the East River the only body of water that goes up near the Bronx?”

“No, there’s also the Hudson River,” David said. “But I don’t know if there’s a clear path through there or not. Like I said, I can check it out tomorrow during the day, if I’m careful. There are less undead out during the day.”

“That will take too long. We need to get together as fast as possible. Besides, it’s way too dangerous,” Parrish said, panicked at the thought of being away from Zoe for even a few more days. “Now that the Dark One knows you have Zoe, she’s going to be looking everywhere for both of you, and she can see through the eyes of any zombie now. She can speak through them and control them individually.”

David shuddered.

“Her powers are growing fast.”

“That’s why we have to move fast, too,” Noah said. “Crash, do you think you could pull up some surveillance cameras in the area and get a good look at the Hudson all the way through?”

“Probably,” Crash said. “If not, I could definitely pull up some satellite footage and see what it looks like through there.”

“If it’s clear to take a boat up through the Hudson River, we need to identify a good spot to dock the boat and meet up with you both,” Parrish said. “It’s probably best to stay in contact, and that way the second we get the boat into the city, you and Zoe head over the rooftops to meet us somewhere in between. The faster we can get together and get back to the boat, the faster we’ll be out of the city.”

“Plus, once we’re in the boat, the Dark One won’t be able to reach us,” Crash said. “Or at least as far as I can tell, none of those things can swim or are smart enough to drive or navigate their own boats.”

“Maybe if she took direct control of one of them, she could chase us that way, but we could face one better than an army,” Parrish said.

“We’ll have Lily to contend with there, too,” Karmen said. “We can’t underestimate her, either.”

“Good point,” Crash said.

“I think it’s smarter for me and Zoe to sneak across rooftops and wait for you near the water,” David said. “When you pull up to one of the docks, we can just jump in.”

“Too dangerous,” Parrish said, shaking her head. “I don’t want you both out there and exposed for that long, just waiting for us.”

“You said yourself the Dark One could sense your movements and tell where you were,” he said. “I don’t think the same is true for the two of us. As long as we can move undetected, we should be able to get into the boat before the Dark One even realizes we’re there.”

“He’s got a point,” Crash said. “The second we step foot on land, she’s going to have a thousand of those things coming after us, and they’re not going to stop coming. We’ll be fighting the entire way to that apartment. How many blocks are you from the Hudson, in general?”

David seemed to think it over for a while. “I’m not sure,” he said. “We’ll have to get over the Harlem River first. That’s maybe ten blocks away. Getting over the bridge isn’t easy there, but we made it through once already. It would be harder for you than for us.”

Parrish didn’t like the sound of this. She didn’t want two little kids making the most dangerous part of the trip alone.

“I think once we get over to the other side, it’s another fifteen blocks, maybe. It depends what part of Manhattan,” David said. “But if the wind is right, I don’t think I’ll need to worry about the bridge.”

Well, that got her attention.

“You can just fly over the river without the bridge?” Parrish asked. “Are you sure?”

“I haven’t tried it yet, but yes. I think I can do it.”

Her heart nearly dropped through her stomach.

He thought he could do it? With her sister on his back or something?

If he hadn’t safely gotten her all the way from the Four Seasons to the Bronx without being detected by the Dark One, she wouldn’t have trusted him at all.

“How far