Revealing Silver by Jamie Craig

Author:Jamie Craig [Jamie Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781426892240
Google: 6DKEGwDAWgIC
Amazon: B005GFBE40
Goodreads: 12083827
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2011-04-10T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The booze splashed the sides of the sink before swirling down the drain, spinning in infinite gyres until disappearing from sight. Nathan flicked the faucet on, washing away the last damning drops of vodka, clutching the empty bottle against his chest like a prize. It would eventually join his growing collection of empties, but for the moment, he wanted to enjoy the smell of the vapor escaping through the narrow neck. This was becoming something of a tradition, and if the looks Olivia had been giving him that afternoon meant anything, something of a problem. If she realized the bottle in his apartment was really multiple bottles and not the same lonely one he bought before Christmas, then she probably thought the worst of him.

Nathan released the bottle, dropping it into the bin like it might come alive and bite him. He could have told Olivia the truth. He could have stopped buying alcohol every single time he left the house. He had a self-destructive streak and he never tried to deny it, but this threatened to go beyond mild self-destruction and into actual self-harm. How long would it take before Nathan gave up and tipped the bottle down his throat instead of the sink? One month without signs of Remy? Two months? A year? A relapse seemed imminent enough without constantly setting himself up for failure.

Olivia had been right about longing for the known security of crawling back into a bottle. It would cushion him, lift the weight from his weary bones, and silence the howling darkness inside of him. He wanted to be strong for Remy, to stay sober for her sake and safety. But every second of every hour brought the reminder that he couldn’t help. He scoured the Internet for information about the Silver Maiden, contacted everybody he could think of, including Cora, for further hints or details. He prayed. He even started digging deeper into Gabriel’s background, not searching for anything specifically related to the coins, but something to use as leverage, but he never found anything he didn’t already know. He helped Olivia when she asked for it. But it all amounted to the same wretched nothingness. The items Remy had left behind at least reassured him she hadn’t been some sort of hallucination, but they didn’t free Nathan from his limbo.

At the end of the day, all he had was faith that Olivia had seen what she claimed she saw, and hadn’t been mistaken, exaggerating, or lying. He didn’t think she would do that, but he didn’t know her, did he? He trusted her because Isaac trusted her and because he did believe in the coins—he’d be foolish not to at this point—but trust and faith wasn’t science. It wasn’t evidence. The people who shelled hundreds or thousands of dollars to so-called psychics relied on the same feelings of trust and faith to justify their willingness to hemorrhage money to hear one final message from dead parents, spouses, and children.

What if he tried to use the coin? Granted, the last time he touched it, it had burned him.

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