Ever After (Dirtshine Book 3) by Roxie Noir

Author:Roxie Noir [Noir, Roxie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Liam

I wake up before Frankie again, fairly hungover and with that dried-out-husk feeling that I always get after smoking, but it’s nothing new. Nothing I’m not used to.

I lie there for a long time, watch her sleep sprawled out on my bed like a face-down starfish, half her face squashed against the pillow. It’s raining and foggy today, and somewhere in the back of my mind I think about how the weather matches the inside of my brain, only the inside of my brain feels like there’s a man trying to knock out a partition with a sledgehammer inside it.

As shitty as I feel, it’s comforting, somehow. Feeling this way is bloody awful but it’s a bloody awful I’m well familiar with, a bloody awful that I don’t have to guess at how to fix. Deep down — far down, mind you — there’s a voice inside warning me off, reminding me that I know where this path leads and there’s a bridge over train tracks at the end, but that voice is tinny and hollow and a fucking bore.

When Frankie wakes up, she’s in my shirt again. She comes into the kitchen, and I hand her a glass of brandy, honey, and water.

This time, she doesn’t even say I shouldn’t, just drinks it and then kisses me, still tasting of alcohol.

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