Society of Psychos (Dead Men Walking Duet Book 2) by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

Author:Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti [Peckham, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

T he take-off had been thrilling. I’d watched the lights of the runway disappear beneath us as we climbed up, up, up into the sky, my face squashed to the window as I took in the twinkly world below. When we’d risen above the clouds and the huge moon had appeared to light the entire fluffy world beneath the night sky, I’d stared, slack jawed and enthralled by every drop of silver light that kissed the bed of clouds.

There’d been some new clothes waiting for us onboard and even though they were as boring as a bag of beans, I’d changed into the black leggings and snuggly grey sweater, pulling on the socks and curling up in my seat. Niall was beside me in a big cream seat of his own, not seeming remotely interested in the view beyond the window even when I pointed out a cloud that looked like a giant turnip eating a mushroom.

He was wearing a navy tracksuit and his tattooed fingers were flexing against the arms of the chair as he stared at nothing with a deep frown drawn onto his features, like he was working out the most complicated math problem in the world. I’d never been good at math, numbers were tricksy things, always doing cartwheels around my head whenever I tried to wrangle them, giggling at me as I attempted to put a couple of them together and squish them up to make a bigger number. No, that cultured number stuff wasn’t for me. My mind didn’t put things together, it tore them apart and created fantasy worlds out of the pieces.

For the longest time, that had been all I’d had as company. In my head, I had friends who liked me, and I could be whoever I liked. A villainous princess or a heartless assassin. No one could tell me who to be inside my mind, no one could hurt me there, or reject me, or make me feel odd. That was what the people on the outside did. The real world looked at me and recoiled, but the people I made up in my head couldn’t do that. I’d made them up after all.

Niall had been the first outside world person who’d seen who I was and hadn’t flinched away. He’d answered my weirdness with a weirdness of his own, and tonight, I’d thought that was it. All those pretty declarations while he’d had me pinned beneath him, all the burning looks and kisses which I could still feel tingling within my lips. It had been beautiful for a minute there, the best feeling I’d ever found in the outside world with its realness and its rejection.

But now he’d gone all quiet, sitting there like a goose who’d lost its beak and nothing I said or did drew any reaction from him. Regrets were settling deep into his features and it left a pang in my heart as I stole glances at him, knowing I was the reason for them.

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