Awaken The Dark Paradise Chronicles 1 by Isadora Brown

Author:Isadora Brown [Brown, Isadora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evershade Publishing
Published: 2018-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

21

Reese

When the alarm went off, Reese was in the bathroom touching up her makeup and brushing out the frizz that always invaded her hair whenever she broke a sweat. Besides soccer, she never really had to worry about it. Though she loved dancing, she knew she was bad at it and therefore rarely participated in the activity, especially in public, but she was at a party and her friends insisted.

As she began to apply another coat of mascara, her vision turned black and goose bumps sprang up on the back of her neck. She only had this feeling one other time, and that was when— the accident. She barely remembered that vision. There was a man, but she couldn’t make out much of him except gold buttons on a wrinkled self-made brown jacket and scruff on his face. He was holding her, her face pressed in his chest like she fit him perfectly. His hand was pressed flat against the bare skin of the small of her back. It was rough, like he had worked more than she had ever known, but provided her with more comfort and security than she had believed could be found in a single touch.

It was the first thing she thought of when she woke up from the coma.

This vision was much worse. She smelled the itchy scent of smoke, heard the snaps of the flickering flames, felt the impending heat as they pressed closer to her.

She was outside her house—what was left of it. The fire was still raging, but all Reese could focus on were the charred bodies of her family as they lay in a heap just off to the side.

From then on, it was a blur. She thought she screamed, but she couldn’t be sure. Certainly, she wanted to collapse—her legs were too strained to carry her weight—but something urged her forward. She needed to touch their bodies, make certain they were dead.

They couldn’t be dead.

Just as she was about to spring forward, someone intercepted her by enveloping her small frame in his strong arms. He smelled of burned pine, spice, and something else, something gritty but poignant.

“They’re gone, Reese,” he told her, his voice a low rattling sound that hinted at a European upbringing. She knew him, but the way he said her name was new, as though it wasn’t a common occurrence for him to address her as such. “They’re gone.”

Reese blinked and the vision disappeared. The burning sound of the alarm refused to give her any time to process what she had seen, and after shoving her mascara into her purse, she rushed out of the bathroom. Andie should be back from her rendezvous with Jack—Reese couldn’t help but notice Jack’s tall, broad stature with Andie’s petite, curvy one as they headed out of the lobby together—and maybe it would be easier to find Keirah outside rather than in.

She didn’t expect Gabe to block her from heading out of the exit. Reese knit her brows together as she took a step back, not wanting to breathe the same air as he did.

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