Make Me Howl by Tina Glasneck

Author:Tina Glasneck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tina Glasneck

Chapter Fifteen

KILLIAN

Frustration rode me like a damn horse, even worse than the anger and rejection.

I really thought things would work out. Where did I misread the signs? It wasn’t enough to admit my mistakes. I’d said I’d fucked up. I’d walked away, but not willingly. Again, business—working with the Order—would pull me away from here.

Despite the pull, she held on to me. I combed through my memories, trying to see things outside the rose-colored glasses I’d fashioned for them. And then, even I couldn’t overlook the hurt feelings, the way my disappearance must have been felt by her, in addition to the shit she’d had to try to fix after I left.

While I was chasing down bad guys, keeping things safe for her, she was picking herself back up and trying to make a life without me in it.

My heart ached. I’d been an ass.

Memories repeatedly replayed until I found myself holding her in my arms as white lights twinkled. We swayed together to the sounds of “Killing me Softly,” by the Fugees. We danced, a moment I still held sacred. She’d been breathtakingly beautiful in an off-the-shoulder primrose pink gown, looking forward to a life filled with the promise of a better tomorrow until I’d fucked up.

“You keep looking at me,” she’d then whispered.

“You’re beautiful.” I was supposed to keep her as my friend, to stay away, but I longed for more as if I’d wandered aimlessly instead of loving her—realizing I was made to love only her. I remembered capturing that moment with my mind’s eye, hoping never to forget it. That night, I’d been happy.

“I’m sure you say that to all the girls.”

“Before you, no one else mattered.”

With graduation coming up at the time, I knew the Order would pull me out soon, but that was the night we’d always have to remember, and they surely didn’t care about any collateral damage.

“What do you plan to do after graduation?” I asked.

“Future plans? I received a full scholarship to do legal studies for my undergrad and after that, on to law school. I can then help people.”

“Is that what you want?”

“I don’t know. There is still so much to learn. But I feel like I’m searching for truth. My mom has me heading to see her psychic next week to work out any kinks.”

“The esoteric arts.”

“I don’t believe in that stuff.” She twisted her mouth in an adorable way.

I was too chicken to tell her that stuff was more than real. Time threatened us, and so did evil magic.

“You know, I’m happy we get to do this.”

“This? I wouldn’t want to be at prom with anyone else.”

I knew she meant it. In her gaze rested the pure adoration of a heart that had never been broken, a spirit never crushed under life’s brutality. Her come-hither smile shouldn’t have given me hope.

But it did.

“What about you?” she asked.

“I don’t know. Something tells me that the family will move again, and where they go, so do I.”

She leaned her head on my shoulder, and we moved to the rhythm, guitar melody encasing us in that moment.

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