The Fallen Stars (A Star Child Novel) by Keyes Stephanie

Author:Keyes, Stephanie [Keyes, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Celtic, YA, Paranormal Romance, Inkspell Publishing, The Fallen Stars, The Star Child, Stephanie Keyes
Publisher: Inkspell Publishing
Published: 2013-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

KELLEN—SECRETS

Fisting my hands in my hair, I grabbed at the strands so tightly I’d come close to pulling it out. Cali had tried to use her powers on me. Then on top of that she’d kissed William, or he kissed her. Every part of me understood that she didn’t want him…I knew in my gut that she loved me. But this prophecy thing…she lied to me. Technically, we were talking a lie by omission, but a lie nonetheless. If I couldn’t trust Cali, who could I trust?

I had no idea where I’d walked, but I found myself in a room constructed with windows on three sides. The view of the ocean outside seemed larger than life, like a postcard. There were about a million rooms in the house and I’d never been in this one before. The wall space that hadn’t been covered with windows held floor to ceiling shelves stacked high with colorful books. Under different circumstances, this would have been my favorite room in the house. Yet without Gabe to lighten the place, the home had a depressed quality to it, like a house out of some English novel where they wandered the moors. The American flag that hung within my vantage point from the nearest window quickly dispelled that image, as did the surf.

My heart hurt, ached, like someone had reached in and punched it. More like ripped it out. What could she have been thinking? I fought the angry tears that wanted to come. I was just so damn tired of not being able to trust anyone. Or rather, trusting the wrong people and finding out that they lied. I wiped at my eyes roughly with my sleeve, refusing to cry, scratching myself on the face with my watch as I did so.

Who would be next, Gabe and Alistair? This was why you kept things to yourself. If you didn’t trust people, then they couldn’t cut you. That’s what Cali had done. She’d cut me as effectively as if she’d taken a knife and plunged it into me. And what would I do now? Break up with her? I supposed that was what people did when they came to a point of contention that they couldn’t get past. The very thought of being apart from her, of leaving her behind, made me want to puke on the plush beige carpeting that blanketed the floor of the room.

A sigh abruptly alerted me to Cali’s presence beside me. I didn’t know that she’d come in, probably a testament to my own sadness and anger, emotions that competed for first place within me. Refusing to look at her, I stared down at the floor so that the tears that came anyway would fall at an angle to the ground instead of running down my face.

“Do you miss it? Ireland, I mean?” Cali asked.

I hadn’t said a word about it since our arrival, but I hadn’t known that I would miss home as much as I did. Despite being born in New York, Ireland had become my adopted country.

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