Forget-Me-Not Bombshell by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

Author:Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti [Peckham, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

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An hour, two maybe. The time slipped away and I played all of my favourite songs, kissing my fingers and placing them against the screen to say thank you to each one. They were friends, the only friends I’d ever had in fact. People probably thought I was lonely back home, but they hadn’t seen the endless company I’d carried in my pocket.

Once upon a time, I’d wished for real friends, the kind to tell stories to and make memories with. But where did a girl like me fit into a normal world like that? No, I was born to a family with blood on its hands and too many hidden graves in its past.

Thanks to my vagina, I was useful enough to help stop a war between our enemies which had given me a purpose to serve if nothing more. But I guessed that was fucked now. Danny could make up any lie he liked about my death, but my brothers would come, they would seek vengeance and it would be a bloody, grisly thing. The war between our families would start all over again and the first sacrifices to their unending need for violence would be the girls who had been sent against our wills to marry our enemies.

The car eventually came to a halt, the vibrations of the engine stopped rumbling through me, but I remained there, eyes closed, my soul tangled with the music, never to be released.

I was half aware of the trunk opening, the shift in the air from warm to cold as it rushed over me, but I didn’t open my eyes. The song switched to Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles and a serene smile filled my lips. Ah yes, what a song to die to.

Someone took the headphones off of my ears and my eyes snapped open, defiance tearing up the centre of me as I reached for them. But Danny hooked them around his own neck, glaring down at me with his head haloed by a full moon.

“Let me die to The Beatles,” I demanded, lunging up to snatch them from him, but Danny caught my waist, dragging me against his body and lifting me out of the trunk.

“Not a chance, bombshell,” he said, shoving the trunk shut and sitting my ass on it.

I glanced around as he released me, finding myself in the middle of a dark woodland, a low fog hanging between the trees, lit by the silvery moon. It was cold. Scrap that, it was fucking freezing and I shivered as he regarded me, carving his fingers over the stubble on his jaw. There was an overnight bag sitting on the ground beside him, making it clear that he’d planned this fucking thing while I was still with Frank and making me feel even dumber for falling into his trap so easily.

I swallowed the hard lump in my throat, deciding which way I was going to run when he came at me, but before I could make that call, he spoke.

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