The Complete Tempted Series by Selene Charles

Author:Selene Charles [Charles, Selene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SeleneCharlesPublishing
Published: 2018-09-06T05:00:00+00:00

42

Flint

The trailer they’d taken her to looked like every other one she’d ever walked into. Except Dad or Katy had given them a few of her things to help decorate it. She flicked at the pink princess tassel hanging off the doorknob.

Mom had given her the goofy thing for her thirteenth birthday. She knew how much Flint had hated pink, so she’d probably done it to get at her.

Some days the pain of her mother’s death felt as fresh as it had the moment Flint realized she’d lost her forever.

She peered out the window, watching Cain’s shadowy form. He sat on the bench in front of her door, staring at her trailer with deep, red glowing eyes.

Once those eyes would have terrified her; now they only made her feel safe.

She touched her fingers to the cool pane of glass. He looked up then, and God, it was like the world stopped existing for a moment.

Like they were connected, bonded by something stronger than just her merely liking him and him her. When Cain wasn’t with her, she felt empty. Not like she couldn’t live, but like the colors of the world were muted. Less than.

Flint trembled when he lifted his hand in greeting.

This world she lived in now, it wasn’t safe—it was scary and terrifying and totally outside her comfort zone. Cain was her anchor, and the thought was both terrifying and exhilarating.

After only another second, she forced her feet to walk to the bed. Plopping down on the lumpy mattress, she stared at the drop-tile ceiling, counting the many tiny holes in the one right above her.

In two more weeks it would be her birthday. Eighteen. A legal adult. Somehow that thought didn’t seem nearly as important as it once might have.

Now all she could think about was Abel. Wondering where he was right now. What he was doing. What was being done to him.

After her test this afternoon, she’d walked past Janet’s trailer, hoping to go in there and visit with her for a bit, even if only to watch her sleep. But Flint had heard her screams and the reality of what was happening smacked her in the face all over again.

Nothing was right anymore. Seconds turned into minutes, and minutes into hours before she finally drifted off into a lulling, trancelike state.

Images came to her almost from the moment she closed her eyes.

Darkness interspersed with bright pinpricks of light.

There was a conscious awareness in the back of her mind that she wasn’t exactly sleeping, but she also wasn’t awake. She was somewhere in between, like she’d been that night with Layla in the woods.

Flint was again a shade, a spirit, a ghost—whatever you wanted to call it. She glanced down at her fleshy body on the bed, not as scared this time as she’d been before. Maybe this was part of her fae ancestry, or maybe this was something else entirely. All she knew was that rather than panic she would attempt to learn.

Turning, she walked

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