The Nightfall Billionaire Serial Installment 2 by Vanessa Blackstone

Author:Vanessa Blackstone [Blackstone, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

After many long moments, she looked up at him and asked, “Rick, do you ever get scared? Like, are there times when you’re afraid?”

Fighting off sleep, Rick blinked, taken aback by the innocence of the question. “Sure. Everyone gets scared sometimes.”

“No, I mean really scared. Like, terrified. So terrified that you…” Her eyes began to water, and she looked away. Her body began to tremble as she attempted to hold back her emotions.

“Beth? Beth, what’s wrong?”

She shook her head in a sense of futility, doing everything she could to keep from crying. She set her drink down on the floor and buried her face in her tucked-in knees. Her whole body was trembling in desperate silence.

Outside, the very first touches of the morning light, dim and airy purples and pinks, began to fade into the frigid sky.

Rick got up and sat down a few feet to her side.

“Hey, hey, you can tell me. It’s ok.”

She wiped her eyes with her sleeve. Then she looked up at him and managed to say, “Rick… Rick, I just… This whole PIR Unit thing is just…” She shook her head again. “I can’t keep doing it. I just… can’t. I’m not cut out for this. The Bureau made a mistake in letting me work here. I don’t know how I got in.”

“But—”

“Don’t you see, Rick? I don’t belong here! I don’t!”

The tears now streamed freely down her face. She was looking straight at him. Her wet eyes were clouded with a frightened anguish whose depths Rick could scarcely imagine. “I’m going to run away from this. All of this. I’m going to turn in my resignation. I’m just going to turn in my resignation and just—go. I just can’t do this anymore, Rick,” she sobbed. “I just can’t! Do you understand?”

He took her again in his arms but said nothing. In great heaves welling up from the depths of her opened agony, she sobbed uncontrollably into his shoulder.

I will try to put your broken pieces, Beth, back together.

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