Evil Love by Ella Fields

Author:Ella Fields [Fields, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: Ella Fields
Published: 2020-09-02T23:00:00+00:00

Fern

I stared at the pictures.

They stared back at me.

Rage had been building, slowly gathering force until I was out of bed and at least showering once a day. So what if I stared at the walls most of the time, unthinking and unblinking. Improvement was improvement. He might have stolen something I’d never get back, but I was still breathing, and with every new breath, it hurt less to do so.

With every bright morning, I felt the gathering dark.

I latched onto it. I needed it. It was my lifeline out of this unbearable place he’d shoved me into with such incurable malice. There was no remorse. There was nothing left but me and the broken beat of my heart.

Jude Delouxe wasn’t capable of showing remorse.

It would ruin that asshole exterior of his. The one he’d never dare let anyone climb beneath.

In the days, weeks, nearly months that’d passed, I’d sometimes find myself wondering what he’d done or what had happened to him to become the cold-blooded creature he was.

The boy I’d crushed on through most of high school was not the same person he used to be. Over the years, he’d shed that self-assured, king of the world veneer, and in its place now stood cocky defiance, ready to lash out at anyone who crossed him.

And crossed him, I had.

It wasn’t my fault he’d found my diary. Okay, so maybe it was my fault. I’d stupidly left it on the bed, never thinking he’d care enough to wonder what it was I’d been doing the day he’d first stepped inside my room.

I’d never been more stupid in my entire life—and I’d done my fair share of stupid shit. Crushing on the school’s token bad boy being the most stupid.

I’d since moved rooms.

My mom couldn’t handle the stench. You need light, or the dark will fester, she’d said.

I’d said nothing and continued to close the curtains. If I had to see the doors to his lair one more time, I feared I’d throw my lamp across the hedge and into the glass.

One day after showering, I returned to find the curtains drawn once more. Instead of closing them, I’d grabbed my bedding and pillows and marched down the hall to the spare room.

It sat opposite my mom’s bedroom with the stairwell between us, but I didn’t mind. She didn’t either. For when she returned from work the following day and found me transferring some of my things, she immediately began to help.

Nothing was said about Jude even though I knew she was well aware of all that’d happened.

I had no desire to talk about it, and she didn’t appear to harbor any interest.

Which meant Coraline had spilled everything.

So, in silence, that was how we’d spent time together—the only time we’d spent together this summer—but that was okay.

It all had to be okay.

The pictures taunted. His green eyes shining under the small light swaying from the ceiling of my closet. I was willing to bet he’d seen them. I was willing to bet he’d not been happy about it.

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