Love Always, Mia by Cecily Wolfe

Author:Cecily Wolfe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cecily Wolfe
Published: 2021-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Mia!”

Eli’s voice sounds far away as I scramble to catch myself on something, anything, and finally grab onto a chunk of metal sticking up near the gutter.

One of my legs is dangling over the side of the roof, and I fight the temptation to look over and see how far up I truly am.

Three floors, I know, but what does that look like from here, especially with a concrete parking lot below?

“Look at me, Mia. Just look at me.”

Eli’s voice is dangerously calm, and I grip the metal tube hard as I turn my gaze to his.

“There’s some icy patches around you, so don’t let go until I can get hold of your arm, okay?”

My pulse thuds so loudly in my ears I can barely hear his words, his voice, the soothing tone he’s using as if any move I make in a panic might mean I’ll get a lot closer to the ground within moments.

Someone below me screams and I close my eyes, holding the metal lump as tightly as I can as my fingers grow numb from the cold infusing it.

“Hey.”

Eli sounds closer now, his voice now a necessary focus for me as I hear more noise from the ground.

“Can you give me your other hand, and keep this one on the pipe?”

I want to nod, I think, but I can’t move. My foot feels like it weighs more than the rest of my body combined, and it dangles over the edge above whoever is squealing and calling out now.

My free hand is tucked underneath my chest, pressed against the rough roof, and to let it go means lifting my body up and giving away that traction to my traitorous foot.

But I do, and in that instant, Eli grabs my hand before I completely stretch it out to him, and my body jerks between its own weight and the pull of his.

“Stay down, okay?”

We’re on our hands and knees now, the palms of mine gritty and scraped, too cold for me to feel any pain.

Someone is calling my name from the ground, but Eli shakes his head slowly at me, his fingers brushing through my hair as if to soothe me.

“I’m so sorry. This is my fault, and I’ll explain it to them.”

I sit back on my heels, still shaking but now we’re away from the edge and on the flat surface again, slowly calming myself down, concentrating on taking deep breaths and watching Eli’s expressions shift.

“It’s okay, it’s not like you made me come up here. I wanted to, and if I get in trouble for it, so what.”

We have midterms next week, so if I get suspended . . .

Honestly, at this moment, I don’t care.

“Thank you.”

The words come out as a whisper, and Eli stops staring at the edge of the roof, as if he can see the teachers calling out to us, to face me again.

He shifts closer, his jeans scraping on the roof as he leans in and kisses the top of my head.

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