Ever So Madly by J.R. Gray

Author:J.R. Gray [Gray, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2016-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Madden

I held the communicator in my hand and cursed myself. I was an idiot for being scared of this. It was only fear. How bad could it really be? But I knew how bad it could be. My mind had haunted me for a long time. If I let it loose, I didn’t know what it would do.

I tried to forget about it as I ducked out the door. I had to meet Colton. He promised me a space on his diving crew. It would be a big change from the control room I was used to, but maybe the dark tunnels and the dangerous work would keep my mind off what I gave up and what I’d lost over the last week.

When I closed the door to my single room, my bike stood outside shining. It hadn’t been there when I’d gotten in, and I’d expected months of dust coating it. Colton must have cleaned her up after I called him and told him I was back. He hadn’t asked, but I knew he would, more so now that I’d asked him for a job. I swung my leg over her and brought her to life. She purred, and I suspected he’d been riding her. The first sun was above the buildings, and its mate would be peeking over the horizon before I reached the mines.

Barely past dawn, I had to squint past the harsh light. Billions of years ago the binary stars had collided, and the planetary system around them had formed in the aftermath. It had crippled the smaller star leaving it a white dwarf, while the other had become a green giant. Because of the pair of them it was light here fifteen to twenty hours of our twenty-six hour days. As most other planetary systems in the known worlds had light twelve or fewer hours a day, it was hard to handle for outsiders. Toward the poles I was told the suns never set, rather dipping lower in the sky before moving up again. The unique circumstances under which the planetary system was created had been the birth of the element Ore and the mines of hell.

Panic ran like blood through my veins as I approached the pits. The weeks away returned to full force, the panic I’d spent most of my life working to dull. The large pits dipped hundreds of miles toward the core of the planet. Only thin roads existed between them creating a special kind of hell between my fear of bridges and heights. All the breath went out of my lungs as my tire passed over the edge. I had ten kilometers to travel weaving through the over road then down into the blackness. I got there before most of the day’s workers having made good time. I left my bike in the dusty lot and took the elevator down. The high speed elevator traveled one hundred kilometers in the span of a few minutes.

I closed my eyes waiting for the drop.

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