Daughter of Glass by Vicki Keire

Author:Vicki Keire [Keire, Vicki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620077306
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2015-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

know,” I mumbled. “I remember. Unfortunately.” I knew I was being rude, but I was too distracted to elaborate. One of my rarer guardians chose that moment to put in an appearance.

If a girl could be cut from glass and spun into life, she would look like my most fragile of guardians. Sadness stood behind Cassandra’s chair in the busy bookstore coffee shop, her translucent hair almost blinding as it refracted back the bright halogen lights overhead. Everything about her was colorless or clear, so she always took on the hue of whatever surrounded us.

As she settled into the chair I had fully expected the now-absent Fear to occupy, she took on the subtle blue glow of the tablecloth and bookstore walls. Her skin and hair, however, continued to shine under the lights. A pale, fragile girl who smiled beautifully but rarely, she was the guardian who reminded me most of myself. Perhaps it was why I found her presence the most uncomfortable. I wondered what kind of light Noah would see if he tried to paint her. Would it glow softly, reassuringly, or would it cut like a beacon? Her presence told me so much about how much I already missed him.

The coffee shop bustled around us. Couples chatted happily, their heads close together and wreathed with steam from their drinks. I wondered what Noah was doing now, and if we would ever get to share that kind of intimacy that I had basically run away from. That’s what I had done, I realized. I had run away at the first sign of something abnormal, leaving him alone in his studio.

If I could put money on who would run first, I would have bet everything on him. He was the sane one, and I was the one with everything to lose. Obviously, I was the coward here. I had never pegged myself for the running kind, but then, I had never been close enough to anyone to be scared. I had protections in place against that, supposedly.

Noah had screwed all that up. Obviously, there was something going on with him—something unusual. Something some deep part of me didn’t like, even as another, equally strong part of me couldn’t get enough of him and the way he could bypass every single guardian who’d gone up against him so far. I wondered if that’s what the strange Cassandra Blackwood wanted with me now. She stared at me under drawn-together eyebrows, probably wary because of my rudeness.

“I know who you are,” I said. “Noah told me about you. The night I saw you at your shop.”

I remembered that night, and the fierce possessiveness that had swept me at the thought of this girl trying to take him away from me. My throat felt as if it were choking up, which was an odd physical sensation to me. Sadness reached out as if to touch me, but pulled her hand back at the last minute, her fingers fluttering like windsocks in a storm. I thought again of how unexpected Sadness’ presence was, and wondered what had me so disturbed.

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