Sound of Silence by Elizabeth Miller

Author:Elizabeth Miller [Miller, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Traitor? Weapons? I glance at the crate of rifles in the first picture. Dad with his hand clasped in agreement with Marik.

Shots fired.

Thirteen casualties.

Thirteen soldiers.

But there were three more men who fell that day by a sniper’s bullet: Axel, Justin, and then me. Sixteen men fell during that mission.

Not all of us made it out alive.

According to our calculations, rebel rounds shouldn’t have been able to reach us from where they lay. The distance was too great, their guns too old. But if they had our technology, it would have been an easy shot.

Oh, fuck. My lungs constrict. I drown in the possibility. He wouldn’t. My father couldn’t betray his country, his team, his brothers, Justin or me by smuggling in guns. There’s no way. Yet the evidence suggests it’s true.

I’m about to grab Dax when my axis shifts yet again. Drawn to the entrance by some unfathomable energy, my mouth falls open. Piper. I blink her into focus. It’s her. She’s changed, yet she’s still the same. Eyes as dark as night are lined and wide; hair cut to brush the top of her shoulders remains bent into perfect waves, but the tips aren’t confused by multi-colors. They’re pink. And her legs, dear God, whatever kind of short jumper concoction that is with its deep V plunging to her naval and the hem dusting the tops of her thighs is sexy as fuck. Her hip cocks to the side, her hands holding a clutch at the juncture of her legs.

Cara bursts through the door, then Spencer and Charlotte, followed by Erin and Danny, and a third of our graduating class of ’82 file in behind them. But my eyes latch on to Piper’s and then she smiles. She smiles the damn smile that tightens my chest, and I can’t breathe. All of it is too much. Then I fall. Free falling like the floor was pulled out from under me. I have nowhere to go but dive into my head.

Gavin Lawless. Traitor. Asil Marik. Justin. Piper. My thoughts swirl. Her grin falters. The world intrudes again, and my fucking pulse takes off when the past steps next to my future.

Leah.

Of course she’d be here. I swallow past a rush of memories. It’s been years since I’ve seen her, and although everything’s changed, when faced with a person who helped shape the man I am today, nothing has. Seconds tick by and I’m struck by light and dark. Leah reaches and brings her long hair over one shoulder revealing a sleeve of colorful tats, starting at her collarbone with her birthday woven through a map like coordinates. The rest of the images blur into a montage of what I assume are lifetime moments.

The room turns black. All of my yesterdays roll in like a dark cloud, smothering the light. History plays out like an old film in my mind—summers on the beach, campfires and road trips, football games and friends. Twelve years disappear, and Justin is alive. But now he is dead and I am not.

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