Wild Child by A. S. Green

Author:A. S. Green [Green, A. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Entangled, Coming of Age, Contemporary, military, Navy SEAL; private investigator; road romance, Embrace, NA, NA romance, New Adult; Second Chances; Romance; Boss/Employee; Reunited Lovers; former military
Goodreads: 40072766
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Embrace)
Published: 2018-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Jackson

Someone is pulling me up the stairs. What the— Ah, hell. I’m back in this fucking dream again. I will my body to stop moving, but it’s no use. I pull back on my mother’s hand. She opens the bedroom door. At first it’s only a crack. Someone screams. More people screaming. Bad words.

My father is naked. He seems taller, wider, scarier without his clothes. There’s a new lady in the room. She looks scared, too.

“Do whatever you think is right,” someone says, and then I realize it’s me who’s talking. I’ve never been in this part of the dream before.

I’m not in my parents’ bedroom anymore. There’s a glowing marquee. A band is playing inside a building. Cars packed tight in a gravel parking lot. I’m walking away from someone, but I don’t know who.

I’m on a pink rubber band, stretching the distance behind us, feeling the tension and pull of her. Waiting for the snap. Still, my feet keep moving. This doesn’t feel right. I hate it. It hurts. God, it hurts.

“I’m going inside to hear the last set. Don’t want to miss Chantry’s drum solo.”

“I’ve got to go, Jax.” The rubber band snaps, and I’m hurtling through space.

“Natalie! Don’t go!”

“I’ve got to go.”

The words are nearly erased by the sound of rotor blades. It’s a small mercy, but… Oh, God. I’m back in the helicopter. I knew I would never escape it. The dream always ends the same.

The Chinook shudders like it’s shaking off the cold. Smoke fills the fuselage. But all I’m conscious of is the sound of Charlie yelling, “Kailey! Oh, God, Kailey!”

I’ve got to get Charlie to Savannah. Three more days. It’s only three more days. One of us deserves this. It won’t be me. It was never meant to be me.

“Charlie. Hold on, asshole. We’re gonna get you home.” His leg is trapped.

Slowly I scratch and crawl my way through the darkness, over submerged bodies, back toward Charlie. But I can’t get there. The more I climb, the more he retreats. My arms are stiff, heavy, clawing uselessly at something that just won’t give.

Charlie’s voice dims and shrinks, drawing away from me until it’s only a pinprick of sound. He calls my name, but I can’t get to him. He’s too far. I’ll never make it. “Charlie! I’m coming, buddy. Don’t go. I’m coming for you!”

His body shrinks inside his clothes until I’m scraping at the fabric, trying to find him. My hands are worn down to the bone, and my fingernails are falling out, thousands of them raining down on me like white rose petals over a dance floor.

My body spins, then jerks. I’m awake!

I find myself upright, sitting on the edge of a mattress. Everything in me threatens to hurl upward while the room continues to spin. I clutch the sheets so I don’t hit the floor.

It takes a few seconds before my stomach settles back into place. There’s the faraway sound of a trumpet. Moonlight sifts through the slats of the wooden shutters.

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