Sacrificed by Desni Dantone - Ignited Series 02 - Sacrificed

Author:Desni Dantone - Ignited Series 02 - Sacrificed [Dantone, Desni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Young Adult, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780989509022
Google: rk0nngEACAAJ
Amazon: 0989509028
Barnesnoble: 0989509028
Goodreads: 19088511
Publisher: Desni Dantone
Published: 2014-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

I had to give it to them. The party had been a good idea. We’d all needed the break. But, after an hour, I needed a break from the break.

It seemed wrong, somehow, to be celebrating when we had no reason to celebrate. Not really. Alec was gone. We were crawling our way toward the answers we sought, and it seemed impossible that we would find them before it was too late. I could barely stand to be in the same room as Micah anymore, and my whatever-you-wanna-call-it with Nathan was…stalled, to say the least.

All of that, plus the addition of Callie’s strongly concocted margaritas was why I now stood outside, alone on the back porch, staring up at the stars like they held the answers I needed so desperately to find.

They sparkled down at me, but nothing inspirational materialized before me.

“Thanks for nothing,” I muttered miserably.

“Talking to yourself now?”

I hadn’t heard the patio door sliding open, but when I looked now, I saw Nathan closing it behind him as he joined me on the porch.

I turned forward and smiled as he stepped into my periphery. “Just complaining to the stars.”

He mirrored my stance, positioning himself against the railing on the opposite side of the stairs from me. Silence filled the space between us, but it wasn’t the uncomfortable type.

“They’re bright,” he observed after a moment.

“Sure are.”

Were we really standing there, making small talk about the stars? But then, the little things always seemed so much more significant when Nathan was involved.

“You okay? Is the party too much?” Nathan asked. “It was Callie’s idea.”

I smiled. Of course it had been her idea. “No. The party’s great. I just needed some air.”

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw him shift his weight from one foot to the other—Nathan’s version of fidget. I never grew tired of seeing him squirm around me. It only served as a reminder that I seemed to be the only one that could make him nervous.

“Thanks for the gift, by the way,” I said with a smile.

While Callie’s and Micah’s gifts had been great—an assortment of girly accessories and a gift certificate to the hair salon in town to touch up my highlights which, according the Callie, needed some serious attention—Nathan’s gift, a beautiful leather-bound journal, had been downright touching.

He had to have known how much it would mean to me, had to know that I’d been without the journal I’d had since I was a little girl since I’d been forced to leave it in Boone. Only I didn’t know how he’d known. Again, one of the many things Nathan just happened to know about me.

“No problem,” he replied.

“What made you think of it?”

He shrugged. “I know you’ve been without your old one. I thought you might like to have something to write in again.”

Finally, I turned to him, my eyes narrowed. “You knew I had a journal?”

He hesitated as panic flashed in his eyes. “Yeah. I’ve seen you with it. You’ve had it since you were a kid.

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