Dark Days by Kate Ormand

Author:Kate Ormand
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

6 DAYS

I shouldn’t have fallen asleep.

I don’t know how I did. I don’t know how I closed my eyes. I don’t know how I could relax for even a second in this awful place.

Outside the cell door is the sound of jangling keys and groaning metal. They’re here for me. It’s time. I hear the door open, but I can’t see a thing. I can only just make out my own pale hands in front of me. There are no windows in this cell. No moonlight shining through bars to give me even a clue of what time it is or who’s standing in the cell with me.

“Who’s—?” I begin.

“Shh.”

I tense. I’m scared, so scared. I sit up straight, listen. Thousands of scenarios flash through my mind: I’ll be publicly executed, or the guards will shoot me here, or they’ll do to me what they did to Mr. Tanner with the cyborg, or they’ll leave me here and let me rot and waste away until I’m nothing but a pile of bones.

Hard, calloused hands rest on top of mine. I jump at the sudden contact. “Shh,” the voice says again. Lips touch my hair. Warm breath weaves through each strand. “It’s me, Finn. You’re okay. I’m here for you,” he whispers.

He laces his fingers through mine. “Sia, say something.”

I can’t.

“Did they hurt you?” Finn runs his free hand up my arm, slowly, carefully, until it finds my neck, my ears, my face. He touches my cheek, wipes away the wetness from my tears with his fingertips. “Sia,” he breathes. “Sia, it’s all right.” He guides my head to his shoulder and strokes my hair.

I choke. “Finn?”

His face is pressed against mine and I feel him smile. “It’s me, I’m here,” he soothes.

I hug him harder. “I thought they’d come to kill me.”

He eases me back, feels for my face in the dark again, and brushes tangled hair out of my eyes. His touch is so gentle, so careful. “Would you like to go home instead?” he whispers. His face is closer than I thought. I nod, and my forehead rubs against his. His breath catches and there’s no sound at all in the cell. No noise at all around us. Until sharp stilettos crack the silence. The unmistakable sound of pointy heels clicking on concrete.

Finn hoists us both up and guides us out of the cell. He navigates to the front of the building and into the first cell by a side entrance. He pushes me up against the wall, in the corner beside the metal door, and presses his body into mine. Finn’s breath tickles my neck, shallow and fast.

Felicity steps into the jail and Finn stops breathing altogether. The dull footsteps of guards follow her. I’m stiff, rigid, my limbs tense up tight against Finn’s body. Then he pulls away. Cold air slaps me. Without him I’m vulnerable, exposed.

He holds my hand and crouches low, pulling me down into the same position as him. His footsteps are careful, cautious, silent.

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