Rule by Kimberly Adams

Author:Kimberly Adams [Adams, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adams Romance
Published: 2013-05-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

As we disappeared through the door, I gasped at the cold, November breeze. The morning sun was perfectly clouded with scattered snow, and I shivered in my thin sweatshirt.

“Would you like to call your father?” He gestured to my phone, and I accepted it eagerly.

“I had no idea you had this! Yes.” I powered the device up quickly, waiting for my father to answer.

In seconds, his anxious voice nearly doubled me over. “Eva?”

“Hi Dad-”

I heard his relieved sigh, and my mother’s voice. “Yes, it’s her. Are you in Pennsylvania?”

“Yeah, and Will-”

“I’m getting a flight for you now. Is Will with you?”

“Of course he is.”

“Good- okay, hold on- wait, just talk to your mom while I do this-”

“Eva?”

My heart broke at my parent’s frantic voices, and I took a calming breath as Will wrapped his arms around me. “Mom, I’m really fine. Happy. Will’s great. We’re just home for Thanksgiving. Just like regular people.”

She broke into sobs, and I heard my father’s voice again. I handed the phone to Will while he relayed flight information. Turning toward the river to check my emotions, I gazed at the bridge. They are so worried… how am I going to leave them again?

“This way, love.” Will ushered me toward the parking lot. “Your father has organized every detail. We must wait for the taxi to the airport.”

“You look really nice in jeans. I think I should proclaim them acceptable in Icepond. It’ll be my first queenly decision.”

He smiled. “I’m sorry,” he said, gesturing to the taxi approaching. “Your father said that Thanksgiving was yesterday. But your sister and Logan are still there, anxiously awaiting our arrival.”

I shrieked with excitement, chattering about leftovers and our traditional Friday game night after Thanksgiving. At the airport, I had to lead Will through the boarding process. Narrowing my eyes at his driver’s license, I lifted my confused gaze to his.

“The morning before we left, West provided me with all the identification I’d need for this world.”

“I think my dad is in the mob or something.” I dropped next to him on the seat, holding my growling stomach.

The flight lasted less than forty-five minutes. Riding the descending escalator at the Jacksonville airport, I gripped Will’s hand, nervously waiting for my parent’s faces to come into view.

I saw my mother first. She pushed past the crowd exiting the plane, throwing her arms around me. “Mom-”

“Eva,” she cried, her eyes the brightest green I’d ever seen them. Her top lip was swollen, so I knew she’d been crying the entire way to the airport. My dad pulled us both into his broad arms, kissing the top of my head.

“You’re safe? No one is hurting you?”

“I’m fine, Dad,” I promised, suffocating under Violet’s sudden attack.

“You are the shittiest sister ever. I can’t believe you didn’t call me before you left.”

“Vi, things were just crazy, and-”

“Shut up,” she sniffed, pushing me away only to drag me back into her arms. “I love you.”

“Morgan and Jason are coming.” Logan balanced the sandy-blonde haired

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