Feels Like Falling by Keating Elle

Author:Keating, Elle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2018-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Luke

Luke didn’t want to think about all the awful things he had just heard or pay mind to the horrific thoughts that were swirling around in his brain. All he cared about was Peyton. Standing before him, her eyes following her mother’s car until it rounded the corner and out of sight, Peyton looked like she was going to collapse at any moment. He closed the distance between them and took her into his arms. Her arms circled his neck and she wept into his chest. Her sobs came from some untapped well, somewhere so deep that he knew she wasn’t going to stop anytime soon. Her body melted into his as he supported her weight, as she allowed him to hold and protect her.

Minutes passed, but her agonizing whimpers continued. He wondered how long it had been since she really let go, let someone see her in such a raw and tortured state. Sadness consumed him as he thought about Peyton as a little girl, the horrors she had lived through at the hands of her mother and her fucked up boyfriends. And then that sadness morphed to anger, a fury that he experienced only when he thought about Warren.

Warren.

Reggie.

He and Peyton had led parallel childhoods. A literal hell on earth. Is that what drew them to each other? From the very beginning, when he saw her picture on the cover of that magazine, he knew something haunted her. Those eyes, those windows to the soul, had told him that she had secrets. Then there was the night he had found her outside of Eden. And now he knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that the woman she had seen was her prepubescent self.

He was struggling to rid his mind of that image when Peyton suddenly broke free of his embrace. “I need to get to Gus. Can you take me?”

The sudden disconnect, the sight of his empty arms, sent a wave of panic through his body. But he needed to be strong for her. “Of course. Where is he?”

“St. Paul’s Catholic Church. It’s on the corner of East and Main Street.”

He nodded and gestured toward his truck.

She dried her tears with the back of her hand and she entered his truck. He piled in to find her talking to someone on her cell phone. It only took a few seconds of eavesdropping to determine that she had contacted the police. That emotion he had seen and heard in her voice was gone. It was as if she had flipped some internal switch and was now on robotic mode. Over the next several minutes Peyton told the officer the cold hard facts, that her mother had paid her a visit and violated her parole.

After she had delivered the account to the police Peyton ended the call, only to be back on the phone and speaking with Walt. Again, her voice was devoid of emotion and she told her soon-to-be brother-in-law that Shelby had come sniffing around. She

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