Twisted Fate: Dark Heart Duet, Book Two by James Ella & James Ella

Author:James, Ella & James, Ella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barkley's Books
Published: 2020-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

20

Elise

If I live to be one hundred, I will never forget those words, in his quiet voice. “Now I get to see you in my dreams and in my nightmares.” I’ll be seeing the way his cheek tucked up in the world’s saddest smile. For me. Nor will I forget his blue eyes when he said that crazy stuff about the train. How he looked…proud that he’d shattered my heart.

All the…killings. That spiked my pulse at first, but God, he really is the same. No one who takes spiders outside “to feed frogs” is murdering unnecessary people.

I laugh as a tear drips down my cheek. Unnecessary people. I am losing my mind.

I watch him walk back over to his weekend bag, pull out another pair of boxer-briefs.

“You know what I think about spiders? And really all indoor bugs?” I ask, looking at him in the mirror as he runs a hand back through his hair again. “I feel like—okay, I know this is crazy. Sort of crazy. But I can’t help wondering if like…everything is this system, right? I mean, we know it is. Just look at the bacteria in a human body. We are carrying these tiny, microscopic things around within us—in our stomachs, on our skin. And then the system widens to the population level, and species level, and the ecosystem level. Then you get to the planet level, the galaxy level. Like, we’re the planet’s skin bacteria, and we don’t even know it. Anyway. If it’s all connected—if maybe we’re all just one big system—then it bothers me to kill the spiders. I was killing them through college and law school. But then—” I shake my head. “Now I take them outside. When I get them. Which in my place now, I never do, because they spray stuff.”

My eyes grab his as he turns back to me, and his lips twitch in this smirky little smile. It used to be the smile that told me he thought I was cute or funny. Charming. It’s the smile that says I like you. Just because.

“So you’re not killing any spiders,” he says, gripping the dresser’s ledge and leaning back against it.

“No,” I whisper.

He steps closer. There’s a notch between his brows as he crouches by the bed’s low mattress, reaching toward my face without touching it.

“I think you got a dimple, rosa.”

I can feel my cheeks warm as I cover the left one with my hand. “No I didn’t.” I did.

“Yeah, I think you did. I’m pretty sure. Let me see.”

“Dimples were your thing.”

He grins, showing it off. “Man indention.”

There’s a moment here; I’ve noticed there almost always is. Luca grins with his dimple. I’m smiling at him, feeling the smile down to my soul. And I have this moment where it’s all a clear path. As I look into his blue eyes, drinking in his Luca-ness—right here beside me, so close I feel dizzy—I feel something shift deep in my soul, where coal is shoved into the heart fire to keep the other engines running.

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