Initium (The Start) x Book 1 of “The Divine” Series

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hs, savouring my last few moments on earth,

u have made, all of the sacrifices that h

. Whilst others could have been made in vain or in an attempt to

r me. Life nothing but a journey mapped out in the heavens above. Although we may never or understand why, we may at times find her cruel and wicked to test you in ways almost

as coincidences, Francine, things happen for a r

What reason would ever be good enough to a friefinf mother who had been driven to the br

various inflictions and illnesses in their short lives on Earth. How could suc

grown suspicious of The Divine’s ways, part of me even questioned their

ctuary of Heaven. I was hoping, praying to the Divine that if he exists, he would be mercifu

r to The Divinr as a man? Women are not

lead-up to my final day on Earth. Muttering and mumbling, sometimes i

e in my dying isolation. Even if it is a creation of my own being, a fig

world for the afterlife. Two words bringing solace

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he fact that I know this has all happened decades ago, didn’t make the pain feel any less real. When my eyes opened as the mor

d when I was too young to really understand, before I could truly mourn for all the experiences he would never get to share;

ation to the best of my abilities, but I was no professional make-up artist, I barely wore the make-up at a

ded within me, and has done for as long as I could remember. But I knew she wouldn’t believe me, she would ask me to prove it. Yet if I was t

Her past lives, decades even centuries old. Each snippet was so vivid, so tangible, that upon my awakening it had taken sev

me now, what was the importance of me knowing her former vessel’s lives; their heartaches and their pain, but

at I desperately wanted, desperately needed, to tell her. Before s

performance class. But I knew that once she knew, her jealousy, her envy, would overru

st to talk to me. I knew I should probably be flattered; I knew it evoked a lot of hate and whispers amongst the female populatio

id not. He irritated me when he tried to engage me in a conversation, he repuls

before he could fully work up to them, it seemed to spur him on more. It seemed that he was

eek he had opted to sit beside me, claiming that I ‘looked lonely’ when throughout the whole of the first year I had been quite happily sat on my own, it

with his legs so far apart it left me with the smallest gap for my own legs to underneath the desk. H

nite a fire within him, give him further encouragement to try harder. Wh

leave the lecture hall, he had taken it upon him to snatch

please just give them back” I sighed, but when he shook his head, and kept his arm raised

few years ago she wouldn’t have to ask permission, she would have just taken over. I kne

going to expose myself, expose my secret, by unleash

give it ba

panel of the door. “I think we make a great couple” he said, staring at our re

rying to release myself from his grasp, but his grip

you can see how right we are for each other.” He whispered; his mouth pressed ag

my head,

st as his tongue writhed inside my mouth. No matter how hard his lips thrashed against mine, I refused

ld feel if she ever knew. It would destroy our friendship for good, something that I

rath surge through me, feeling her impulse reaction to

glinted, as a dangerous expression flashed across his face a mix of anger and determination. I felt something withi

me to reach for the notebook. It was the first time I had heard even a

try and stop her, she had bolted out of the lecture

you will be mine”. Even though there was distance betw

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e on fire, burning in my chest as she propelled me to run as fast as possible away from him. M

as we navigated through the maze of the university, not stopping for anythi

lenting in his advances. If he wasn’t going to take no for an a

rds me, but the ‘demon’ inside hi

me to be his, and I had refused him, by doing so not only had I made him an enemy, had painted a

voice was panicked, I tried to prompt her further, but

to scare people into more righteous citizens, to abide by the holy scripture.

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