The Fall (The Siren Series) by Higginson Rachel

Author:Higginson, Rachel [Higginson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reckless Siren Publishing
Published: 2014-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Exie picked me up five days later for a Nix-approved outing. I hadn’t left the apartment since he’d brought me home from Ryder’s. He confiscated my phone. He took my laptop. He basically locked me in the house and ordered me to never leave.

I had never hated him more.

And the worst part was that I hadn’t even been able to talk to Ryder since I left him blacked out in the middle of his apartment.

He had to hate me.

I abandoned him. I invited evil into his house and then I couldn’t save him. And then… I just left.

I couldn’t even imagine what he thought when he woke up. Did he remember everything? Did he wonder what happened?

Did he have to go to the hospital?

I started crying just thinking about it. God, I was so weak. But I couldn’t help it. And apparently I couldn’t help him.

The memory of Nix drowning Ryder looped in my head. Ryder’s body on the floor, water pouring out of his mouth… I just couldn’t even function most days. I couldn’t breathe.

I had always been in doubt of how much power Nix had. All my life I grew up thinking we were this big joke. I’d believed that the people I lived with or around were completely delusional; that they’d let ego and legend fuel their greed and excuse their behavior. Even though I thought there was a little bit of truth to their words, I had no idea Nix’s power could manifest like that.

And I didn’t want to know. I wanted to unlearn everything I saw and go back to the blissfully ignorant life I lived for the last seventeen years.

But those horrors and impossibilities couldn’t be unseen or forgotten or shoved into little black boxes and locked up tight. Oh, no. Those nightmarish memories were going to follow me until my dying day.

Ryder. I needed him so badly. But what if he never even wanted to see me again? What if he realized how broken I was? How beyond out of reach I was?

What if he had given up on me?

He was the only thing tethering me to sanity… to hope. He was my life line while I felt the tide pulling me under. He was my anchor while I drifted in a sea of confusion and distress. He was every breath, every moment of life.

And without him, I wouldn’t just wither, I would drown.

I walked into the kitchen for the first time in days. My mom hadn’t exactly been interested in making sure I ate or took care of myself. And I was used to that, so I would have been fine if she would have stopped coming into my room just to stare at me. She was really starting to weird me out. I didn’t get why she kept watching me.

She was waiting for something… but I didn’t understand what it could be. She had never seemed more afraid though. Her eyes were wide all the time, panicked and flighty. Her

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