Rules for Loving Haunted Girls by Jacquelynn Lyon

Author:Jacquelynn Lyon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sapphic romance fantasy books, supernatural romance books, f/f paranormal romance, sapphic fantasy books, women loving women books
Publisher: Jacquelynn Lyon
Published: 2021-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

Elodie was in the living room lacing up her shoes. It was well past sundown by then and she had spent most of the evening at Tina’s house. She was ready for the next step.

She tightened her hiking boots; they were one of the last gifts Carl had given her. She never used them, but now she laced them up with the force of a small hurricane. She tugged and bared her teeth and kept everything else inside her blank.

“Elodie . . .” A cautious voice addressed her from across the living room, hesitant and shaking slightly. “Tina just called.”

Elodie looked over her shoulder to where her sister stood in the kitchen doorway. “I know,” she said with a small smile.

“She told me . . . what you’ve been believing.”

Elodie tightened her right boot. “Lea,” she said calmly. “I have a favor to ask.”

“Please.” Lea put her hands up as if to defend herself from something. “Hear me out. I know I’ve been harsh on you lately.”

Elodie gave a crooked smile. “Lately?”

Lea returned a strained smile. “Perhaps . . . often.” Elodie laughed roughly at that. “But”—Lea bit her bottom lip anxiously—“I really do want to see you succeed. I don’t want to see this thing with Carl take a permanent toll.”

“Thing with Carl?” she asked in a cold tone.

Lea looked down at her shoes. “I’m sorry. I wish I could have . . . stopped it. Done more.”

“You all warned me,” Elodie said with a wave. “He was a creep, marrying a girl barely out of high school, and I would waste my youth on him.” She shook her head with a tut. “But that doesn’t mean I’m stuck there. I’m making moves, Lia.”

Lea blinked a couple times. “You are?”

“Yes.” Elodie finished tying her boot and stood up. “And you’re going to help.”

“Of course, anything.” Lea lit up in front of her for what felt like the first time in years.

“But!” Elodie jabbed a finger in the air. “You will have to leave the property. And you will have to trust me.”

Lea’s brow folded in. “I can do that,” she said hesitantly, though Elodie knew for a fact she hadn’t even gone to town herself in months at the very least. “What do you need, little sister?”

Elodie gave a frail smile. “I want to help someone,” she said softly. “You always say I think only about myself, eh? I suppose it’s about time I do something for someone else.”

Lea strode over and flattened her skirts down. “You know I don’t think that of you,” she said sternly. “I only want to see you become what you can become, more than Carl. You don’t see what I see, Elodie. I think you’re . . .” She shifted from foot to foot.

“You got a compliment stored up after all these years?” She couldn’t help but tease her sister.

Lea opened and closed her mouth, seeming somewhat frustrated with herself. “That’s all. I trust you, despite you having the sense of a may fly.

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