Cold Fire: A Paranormal Novel by Shaye Easton

Author:Shaye Easton [Easton, Shaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Typewriter Pub
Published: 2019-06-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

All night, the government labourers of each suburb worked to clear the roads of snow. That’s what the news tells us when I wake the next morning, still tired after a restless sleep, my mind loud with thoughts late into the evening. Sure enough, our street is mostly cleared, the wet tarmac sparkling whenever the sun dares to shine through the patchy clouds, like it’s run through with diamonds.

School is bustling when I arrive, loud with chatter and shouting, a wave of white noise like the low hum of a crowded amphitheatre. I have first period English, and when I enter, I spot Caden talking with Lauren, the two of them sitting on the edge of their desks. Caden’s got his back to me, but I can see Lauren smiling, talking animatedly. Then her eyes skip over his shoulder and get snagged on me, passing through the doorway. At once her mouth stops moving and her expression collapses, a landslide of emotion crumbling off her face and smashing to dust on the floor.

Caden turns, lips parted, forming an ‘O’ of bewilderment. Before I know it he’s kicked off his perch and is zigzagging around desks and students. I’m slipping around the edge of the room, yawning when he catches up to me.

“We need to talk about last night,” he says, ducking his head to speak to me.

“Not really.” I find my seat and drop into it, releasing my books onto the desk with a smack.

Caden slides into the chair next to mine, gingerly putting down his things. “I need to know why Davion said that.”

“Said what?”

He’s staring at me intently, his whole body turned in my direction. “You know what.”

I shrug. “He was just restating what we already know. My disease is killing me. I’m a time bomb. Yada, yada, yada.”

“No.” He shakes his head, forehead creasing as he puzzles it out. “It was like he knew something we didn’t.”

“You’re overthinking it.”

“And you’re not telling me something.” I look away so he won’t see the truth in my eyes. “What aren’t you saying?”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“Yes, it does. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be hiding it from me.”

I exhale and lean back in my chair, gazing sideways at him. Like this, we’re close enough that I can feel his breath, whisper-soft against my cheek. I can see the velvety dark of his irises and the muscles twitching by his jaw as he swallows. We’re so close, but at the same time we’re divided, an invisible, unpassable barrier between him and me: the understanding that we can never touch.

“It’s my heat surges,” I say at last. “They’re more frequent.”

He clenches his jaw. “How frequent?”

“Two yesterday. And I already had one this morning before I left for school.”

Caden looks away, his hand balling into a fist where it rests on the desk. “You were meant to have more time than this. It was supposed to be years.”

Something inside me twinges. “It was supposed to be years ago. I’m already beating the odds.” Caden has his eyes closed, his forehead scrunched up as he breathes deeply.

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