Jane of Fire by Jessica Penot

Author:Jessica Penot [Penot, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732692824
Publisher: Jessica Penot
Published: 2018-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there com inspirations and capabilities impossible at an less magical and quiet hour.

~ H.P. Lovecraft

Edward came back on Saturday. I hadn’t realized how much I had missed him until he found me in the library. He sat down beside me and put a carefully wrapped box in front of me. He was smiling. He seemed so pleased with himself. He looked more laid back than usual. He was wearing jeans and a t-shirt that showed off his biceps. He looked like he had gotten a little sun. His skin was bronzed.

“You must have had a few good weeks,” I commented from over my Physics book.

“I tied up a lot of loose ends,” he said with a devilish grin.

“You look awfully sun-bronzed for someone who’s been in class for the last month,” I said.

He pushed the gift toward me. “Open it.”

“You don’t have to buy me things.”

“I don’t have to, but I want to. Would you open it?”

I took the gift reluctantly and carefully peeled the gold paper from the box. Beneath the paper, there was a brown box labeled Kindle. I opened the box and saw the newest edition of the most popular e-reader on the market. It was shiny and new and said it had 4-G and Wi-Fi and all the other bells and whistles. I held the sleek back device in my hands. It felt wrong. I loved the smell of old books and paper. I loved the way the pages of a book sounded when they turned. This electronic device felt like it would slowly suck the joy from the pages of the books.

“Do you love it?” he asked. “I know you don’t like jewelry or clothes, but I thought that this would be perfect. I put an ungodly amount of money on your account so you can have any book you want anytime you want it. You literally have the entire library at your fingertips. The best part is that you can download your textbooks, so you won’t have to drag those enormous books around with you everyplace. You can just take this and a few notebooks with you to class and you are set.”

He seemed so pleased with himself. I couldn’t bring myself to say anything negative about his gift. I smiled and kissed him. “I love it,” I said.

He took it from me and fiddled with it. “I already downloaded all your textbooks.” He handed it back to me. The screen had the exact page from the book I was reading on it. It did seem kind of amazing.

“Thank you,” I whispered.

Edward pulled me into his arms and kissed me so hard I felt my breath leave my body with him. I put my hand on his arm and slid it up his bicep and under his shirt. I ran my fingers over the tight sinews of his chest. He drew a deep breath and let his hands slide down my back.

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