The Runaway by Raven Scott

Author:Raven Scott [Scott, Raven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

18

Joci

Once again, I found myself in Jacob’s apartment, and I set my bag on the kitchen counter to stare at it. Inside was a real American phone, with American words, and an American number. I hadn’t opened the boxes, and tension thrummed through my entire body. My heart beat too hard, too fast, threatening to stop completely as I struggled to breathe.

But this was the right thing to do. Jacob deserved to know the truth— to see for himself. Closing my eyes, I took a shallow, stabilizing breath into lungs ravaged by the fire of anxiety. Reaching to pull the shoulders of my dress down, goosebumps followed closely as the fabric irritated my skin. I gulped down the dense lump in my throat, turning to Jacob while he hooked up his coat.

Just do it, and then it’ll be over. That was the only thing running through my mind as I pushed my dress down. I was wearing anything underneath because… what was the point? Forcing my eyelids apart, I almost stopped when I noticed Jacob was preoccupied with his phone. Just do it. Just do it.

“Do you want to—” Beautiful, light blue eyes flickered to me only to snap up, the ring of color disappearing as shock rippled across his sharp, masculine features. My dress pooled at my feet, leaving nothing to his imagination, and I clenched my hands into tight fists by my sides. Every disgusting mark on my body tingled, even the ones he couldn’t see, and it took all my energy not to cover myself.

I knew what I looked like— as if I’d been cut in half and sewn back together. The thick, jagged mess reaching down my torso quivered as a shiver tucked between my shoulder blades. Horrific scars stretched horizontal around my sides, and I couldn’t breathe even when I bent to pushed down my thigh-high socks. More scars. More lines. More ugliness.

The silence rang shrilly in my ears until Jacob’s phone slipped out of his fingers to clatter on the hardwood. He didn’t even blink even as a jolt gripped my bones, and black spots assaulted my vision. Underneath his trimmed beard, his face paled as he covered his open mouth with a trembling hand. My nails dug into my palms, the pins holding my joints together grating as tremors and tension threatened to tear me apart form the inside.

“What the fuck…” The blood drained from my face at his ghostly whisper, and icy prickles washed down my body in powerful waves. My heart strained, and Jacob blinked hard— as if he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “Oh… what the fuck…”

His voice cracked harshly, and I winced when the sound whipped me in the cheek. Ducking my head, I couldn’t stop myself from wrapping my arms around myself. Cotton stuffed down my throat, and my eyes throbbed as the tension in me jeopardized their position in my head.

“M— most of these…” Croaking hoarsely, I struggled a short, hot breath that only fed the flames engulfing my lungs.

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