Beyond the Ever Reach by Everly Frost

Author:Everly Frost [Frost, Everly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ever Realm Books
Published: 2016-10-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

BRIGHT LIGHT FLOODED over Michael, glowing over the whole front lawn as he hunched over, one arm flung across his face. His bare back glowed, muscles pulled taut as he curled up tight.

“I think you need clothes.” I blushed, averted my eyes, and the air around us turned pink.

“Yeah, well, I was kind of in a hurry to get back here.” He kept his eyes shielded. “Whatever you’re doing, turn it off. Shut it down. I don’t know, just make it stop. You’re gonna make my head explode.” He curled into a tighter ball. “And while you’re at it, tell me you’re okay.”

“I can’t turn it off. It’s the nectar. How much did you give me anyway?” I patted my thigh. “But I’m okay.”

“You’re not dead?”

“No. Um. I don’t think so.”

“Because this is pretty much how I’d imagine an angel. White light, brightest star in the sky, that kind of thing. Look, I can’t see a thing. My stuff’s back in the house. How do you expect me to find pants with my eyes closed?”

He had a point. I’d have to walk away from him, but first I needed to check that my new legs were real. “Can you do something for me?”

“Will it make you stop shining?”

“Um. Probably not. Can you tell me if my legs are really there?”

“Ava, if I could look at you, I already would have.”

“Here.” I sat next to him with my legs stretched out in front of me. I pried one of his hands away from his face, forcing him to press his eyes against his knee. I rested his hand on my calf. I didn’t feel any kind of buzz this time, there was barely anything, except a lovely kind of warmth from his skin.

“Tell me if that’s real.”

His fingers slid down my skin from my knee to my ankle, danced across the top of my foot, and stopped at my toes. The pad of his thumb brushed the ball of my foot and made me shiver. “Feels real to me.”

“Okay. So, I guess I’m just going to wander over there for a bit. Away from you. Or something.”

He laughed. “Nectar does weird stuff to you, that’s what you said. Um, yeah. You just grew back a pair of legs.”

“Hey, you’re the one who walked out of a burning car. After bursting into a thousand pieces, I might add.”

“I didn’t burst. I just kind of … moved around a bit. And anyway, you’re the only girl who’d complain.”

I tried not to laugh. It occurred to me that he really was kind of nice to look at. Actually … more than just nice. With his shoulders hunched over, his back muscles rippled, moving as he breathed, as though every movement he made had a purpose, a connection. For a moment, I considered fanning my fingers across his skin, over the curve of his shoulder blade. His back was so broad I didn’t think the tips of my fingers would even reach the base of his neck.

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