Witch Rising: Volume Three of the Phoenixcry Saga by Strange KT

Author:Strange, KT
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heartcandies Publishing
Published: 2021-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Darcy

Another show, the scent of yet another shadowed venue was embedding itself in my veins. As I sat on the edge of the stage, looking out at the empty room, the seats at the far back and the balcony stretching off into the dark, I wondered if it would ever be normal to not be on tour.

Would we ever have a life where we had one place to live in? Would the guys even want that? Did I?

I had to smile at myself, my legs dangling over the edge of the stage as the sound crew moved around me. That wasn’t the kind of future I wanted, where everything was still and static. The road was where I belonged. I could feel it in my pulse, with every turn of the wheels, the blurring of trees and grass as we sped along another highway.

The feel of sitting in the temporary quiet of a pre-show venue, the humming excitement building slowly inside me, was something I’d never seen coming. I’d always looked forward to being in the music industry, but I’d never really known what that meant in the big picture. Instead, it was an immense feeling that gathered in my belly, moments strung up on a wire, tiny beads of light following one another. It made me catch my breath, and the only thing in the world that could possibly top it was the feeling of loving and being loved by my pack.

That, of all things, was the greatest gift that life had given me.

“Hey.” Charlie settled down next to me, his legs hanging over the edge, an acoustic guitar slipping into his lap as he sighed.

I turned to smile at him, and he leaned in close, kissing me slowly. His warm lips closed over mine, and my stomach clenched down with the painful-sweet moment of it. My breathing was shaky when he pulled away, an amused sparkle in his eyes.

“What’re you doing?” he asked, his fingers slipping along the strings. They rung out, but were quickly swallowed by the big room that seemed to go on forever in front of us.

“Just thinking that maybe, after all, everything was worth it,” I said. I stretched my arms out in front of me, reaching, wondering if I reached far enough, I could touch the back of the room, pull it in, make it small again, like those tiny venues we’d played when the guys were first on tour. The intimate press of the crowd, the way Finn could just bend down and grab a hand, connecting to the audience in a way that could never be replicated in a large theater or, if we ever made it that far—a stadium.

“The only part of all of this I really care about?” Charlie waved his hand through the air, before letting it rest on the neck of his guitar, thumb stroking the wood. “Was you stumbling into our lives. Yeah, the fame is alright, the money is security, the fans are cool, but-”

The

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