The Ex Files by Victoria Christopher Murray

Author:Victoria Christopher Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-eight

VANESSA

No matter what truth God spoke to her heart, her mind still told her lies.

If you do it, you won’t hurt anymore.

Vanessa kicked the covers onto the floor and wiped her eyes dry of the tears she’d shed for the last hours. Goose bumps rose on her arms when she scampered from her bed in her sleeveless nightgown down the darkened hallway.

At Reed’s desk, she stopped her hand aimed for the computer in midair.

She’d been able to stay away for a few days. It was because of Sheridan and the prayer she’d said at the end of the last meeting. Now she understood that she was in a war, the battle between her heart and her head. If she wanted to win, she had to stay connected to her heart, fight to keep the thoughts out of her head.

If you do it, you won’t hurt anymore.

She had been winning—listening to her heart, casting down her thoughts. But in the dark of the house, in the quiet of the night, in the hours well past midnight, she was alone. Alone. That was the battle that she could not win.

With one click, the computer screen became her light. It took only minutes to navigate to the chat room; she knew how to find her friends.

Once there, she typed in the moniker she’d been using.

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