The Blood & Roses Series Box Set by Callie Hart

Author:Callie Hart [Hart, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-15T23:00:00+00:00

FIFTY-SIX

Zeth

(four days later)

Something tells me I’ve lost time. You tend to know these things when they happen to you—you can feel it in your bones. There’s that feeling of wakefulness when you rise from sleeping—a pleasant, mostly lethargic experience. Then there’s the sudden wakefulness of your consciousness resetting and switching back on, like you’ve been powered down while your body carries out maintenance work, and then having the reset button hit when things are tolerable enough for you to wake up again.

Waking right now feels like the reset button being hit. And it fucking hurts like a motherfucker. I’m working up to opening my eyes when I hear voices. The buzzing of a cell phone.

“Who is it?” Lacey’s voice, soft and hushed, speaking to someone else. Another buzz of a cell phone. A deep sigh.

“It’s Pippa. She wants to talk to me. We fought before your last session.” Sloane now. Sloane’s voice. I feel positively fucking tingly when I hear her speak. It’s like a huge weight being lifted from my chest. She was hurt. I remember that. Someone hurt her.

“Are you going to call her?” Lacey asks.

There’s a pause for a moment, and then Sloane says, “I just don’t have the energy right now. She’s not one to let something drop.”

“You should just be honest with her. That’s what she told me.”

Another pause, longer this time.

“And are you going to take her advice? Are you—you don’t think you should tell him yet?” Sloane’s tripping over her words like she’s skirting a very sensitive subject.

“I—I don’t think—No, not yet. It’ll be better—if I wait a little longer.” Lacey seems to be having problems getting her words out, too. I’m hit with the sudden memory of Sam saying that Charlie sent them to take her in order to protect her.

“I can totally understand that you’re nervous about this, Lace,” Sloane says softly. “But you don’t think he has a right to know? I mean, you can’t keep it from him forever, right?”

My hands begin to clench into fists. I get this absurd image into my head—Lacey with a huge, round belly, and some schmuck who’s knocked her up standing right next to her. If someone’s gotten her into trouble, I’m gonna go on the fucking warpath. As far as I know, Lace has been steering clear of every single guy on the face of the planet bar me, though. Maybe she met someone at Sloane’s dad’s church camp. Some hippy dippy asshole who plays guitar and likes toasting marshmallows. The very idea…yeah it’s fucking laughable. Thinking about laughing makes me realize just how damn dry my throat is. I start to cough.

“He’s awake. He’s…oh my god, he’s awake! What should I do?” Lacey panicking.

Something cool and firm touches my forehead, and then my eyelids are being prised open and a bright light is being shone directly into them. I fight to get them closed again. “Mother. Fucker,” I groan.

“And there he is. So eloquent,” Sloane says. There’s a hint of amusement in her voice.

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