Beautifully Shattered: Shadowcrest Pack Series Book One by B. Livingstone

Author:B. Livingstone [Livingstone, B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

Riley

“Riley ... Riley ... Wake up, Riley,” a soft voice singsongs in my ear.

Shifting, I open my eyes slowly to find Grace looking down on me. “Am I dreaming again? Never mind, don’t answer that. I know I am because you’re dead.” I close my eyes and cover my head with my pillow. “Go away, Grace, I need sleep.”

Grace scoffs me, “Riley, you ruin all my fun, you know that?” She pulls my pillow away and I raise an eyebrow at her. “To answer your question, for the hundredth time, Riley, sort of. We are in your dream, but I am here. I am real. This is the only way I can reach you. When you’re drug free and asleep. Unfortunately, that is not very often these days so I can’t come to you as often as I’d like.” Her eyes are wide and pleading as she looks at me.

Well, if the guys have their way with me, I’ll be drug free more often now.”

“Ha, if the guys have their way with you. You won’t be able to walk or talk for a month. You’ll be tied to the bed, gagged, and writhing in ecstasy. Boxed in by all five of those sexy hunks.”

I give her my best “yeah, right” eye roll along with a scoffing retort. “Right. I know of one, maybe two that might want to make me writhe in ecstasy. The rest just want to make me writhe in pain and not the toe-curling pleasant kind either.” She just giggles at that and shakes her head.

“But that’s not important right now. What is important is why you are here. You keep telling me this is real, that it’s really you I’m talking to and not just my grieving mind playing tricks on me. So, tell me how and why you’re here, Grace. What happened to the whole rest in peace shit?”

“The ‘how’ is complicated, but the short version goes like this. Like you, I’m not human but unlike you, I’m not a shifter either, even though Mom and Dad were both shifters. I am something else completely. My guys and I are working it out so there is nothing else to really tell you at this point.” She puts her hand in my face, seeing I have questions to ask and knowing I’m about to unload them all. “Before you ask. No, I will not elaborate on the ‘my guys’ part. And no, there is nothing you can do to help. Besides, you have enough work to do here already. Which leads us to why I am here.

“I am here because you need me. Your life has become a shit-show, Riles. You’re drunk more often than you’re sober, even at work. You are almost always high on something; do you even know what you’re putting in your body these days? Really, Riley, I am terrified for you. I don’t want to come back one day and find your name on a tombstone. I want to be able to hug your physical form, not just your dream walk one.

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