Blackbird by Jessica MacIntyre

Author:Jessica MacIntyre [MacIntyre, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Amazon: B01GVP26DQ
Published: 2016-06-14T23:00:00+00:00

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The suicide barrier was going to be no trouble for this guy, Chelle could see it. Unfortunately it didn’t seem as though the cop who was arguing with him had seen it because as easily as he could have reached out to grab him and haul him back, he didn’t. He simply stood talking, trying to reason with someone who had one foot over the edge and one foot on the tip of the curved rail. He was almost over.

Chelle pumped her legs as hard as she could, harder and harder until she was about five feet from the police officer. He noticed her then and held his hands up to her, signaling for her to stay back. Reason and common sense wanted to obey, but sheer panic and fear kept her legs moving. She kept coming and someone else noticed her too. The young man, who she could see now was no more than perhaps eighteen years old, spotted her and was so dumbfounded he stopped what he was doing.

She was about to yell at him when his foot slipped and he went over. Now he was holding on perilously with one hand. He had to be in good shape to climb the barrier, but Chelle was in good shape too and she jumped up, steadying her foot on a beam and climbed on top of it, hooking her arm through the railing to keep her steady. “Give me your hand,” she screamed. He did and she took it, smiling. She had him.

The relief lasted only for a moment however, because his foot slipped again. Now he was completely over, dangling by Chelle’s hand. White cold fear gripped her as the thought of losing this man after almost saving him caused her stomach to twist in a knot. She couldn’t, she wouldn’t let him go. She had to save him. She had to. Her body had another reaction as well. One she had not expected, but was unsurprising nonetheless.

With more intensity and pain than she’d ever felt before the wings ripped from her back in record speed, tearing their way out. She sensed a panic that was all their own and heard herself screaming as it happened. Within seconds they were out, her jacket was in shreds and only the front of her shirt held on, thankfully.

The piece of metal she’d been bracing herself with for support so as not to fall, gave way under her strength and she felt it bend slightly, then curve, then snap off entirely. In a fraction of a second both of them were falling.

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