Equilibrium (The Rapture Book 2) by L.K. Reid

Author:L.K. Reid [Reid, L.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-23T05:00:00+00:00

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The two of us together probably had more issues than Eastern Europe with their politics. But what happened earlier today told me that she wanted to try. She wanted this—me, us. She wanted to stay.

After she cleaned the cut above my eyebrow and cleaned the blood and the other cuts on my face, both of us just collapsed on the bed, taking a much-needed nap. I didn’t even realize how tired I was until I put my head on the pillow, with her wrapped around me. The lights inside the room were turned off, and while I didn’t know how long we slept, the darkness of the night seeping inside the room through the windows told me it was more than enough. My eyes slowly adjusted to the dark as I greedily took in her sleeping form, her bare shoulders and her hair spilled over my pillow.

I fucking missed her smell, her taste, even her angry little mouth. The last three days were pure torture, because having someone you cared about so close, yet so far, was the worst feeling known to a human mind. I spent so many years searching for her and having her here without really having her with me... Yeah, that wasn’t going to work.

Her head was on my chest, and I could feel the small puffs of air as she exhaled, tickling my skin. With one hand on my pec and the other one on my ribs, it looked like she was hugging me. Her legs were entwined with mine, holding me hostage. Her dark hair was soft beneath my palm, as I started playing with it, dragging my hand through the waves she naturally had. Women’s hair was not something I often noticed, but I noticed hers.

God, I sounded like a lovesick fool, noticing every little detail about her. The way she narrowed her eyes when something wasn’t going how she imagined it. Or the way her eyes shone when she spoke with Zoe, even when she wore that disinterested look on her face. Or how she talked with Atlas as if they knew each other for years and not less than a month.

I noticed all of it.

She thought she was a monster for what she did in the past, but the real monsters were the ones that were supposed to save her. The ones that were supposed to protect her from real evil. I had no idea if she knew about everything her father did, but I was starting to see that while she had his last name, she was nothing like him. You could always feel the true evil when it stood next to you, and she didn’t carry it with her.

The kids from the club didn’t cower from her, even though they knew what other people called her. I wanted to laugh every single time she tried to shoo them away, but it was never in a malicious way. I had a feeling she never learned how to interact with other people, at least not in a healthy way.

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