The Three Fates of Ryan Love by Erin Quinn

Author:Erin Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books

Sabelle held her breath, wanting to see his face, needing to hide her own. They’d wandered close to a razor’s edge that had appeared out of nowhere, leading to a drop into a vast unknown.

“Got me all figured out, don’t you?” Ryan said, his voice a deep rumble in the tight space.

She heard frustration in the question, but she sensed it was directed at himself, and a desperate kind of hope filled her no matter how she tried to stop it.

“Am I wrong?”

Please, tell me I’m wrong.

The silence siphoned the air from the hissing quiet, leaving her light-headed and afraid. Why was she doing this? She couldn’t stay. Aisa would hunt her down and destroy her before she allowed it, and the only way out was the one Sabelle had planned all along. Destroy Aisa and take her place. Only Sabelle would bring justice to the fates. She would guide with hope and benevolence.

Ryan didn’t fit into that future. Knowing this didn’t stop the yearning or the need to hear Ryan say he wanted to, though.

She turned her face and stared out the window so he wouldn’t see her confusion or dismay. One word and he could crumble all the carefully constructed rationalizations she’d built.

Stay.

The blacktop and lighted advertisements blurred as they sped past. She should break the silence before it became unsurmountable. But there was safety in the unsaid. She was fast learning that every time she peeled back a layer of Ryan, he managed to do the same to her.

Still, it seemed cowardly to hide. She’d risked everything to come here. Cowering behind her dread now was unacceptable. Fate stretched out like the road ahead. Hers, his. Lit only so far, it might change in the next second. It might twist after the next bend and spin them both in another direction. More than anything, she wished she could see their future, wished she had some way of knowing if her blindness was caused by the tangle of their lives or simply by geography. Maybe her gifts didn’t work in Ryan’s world.

“I’d be a poor stalker indeed if I didn’t understand you after all this time,” she said, finding that within her hurt was anger. “You’ll be relieved when I’m out of your life.”

“Will I?”

“Do you deny it?”

“Would it do any good?”

“No. You’d only be doing it to be contrary and we’d both know it. Even before . . . when I tried to guide you from the Beyond, you never listened to me. If I nudged you to the right, you’d go left. If I whispered yes, you’d say no.”

“Maybe I didn’t like being pushed.”

“I never pushed.”

“You’re pushing now.”

Was that what this was? Not Ryan waking up and realizing that he needed her, but Sabelle backing him into a corner, trying to take what he would never give? She curled her fingers into her palms, refusing to let him see how shredded she felt by that perception.

It was time to change the subject, steer clear of this vicious cyclone.

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