Fall Out (Against the Tides #1) by Katheryn Kiden

Author:Katheryn Kiden [Kiden, Katheryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B013JEGY4E
Publisher: Fidem Publishing
Published: 2015-08-05T23:00:00+00:00

KNOX

I WATCH ARIANA rush away from the gravesite and disappear into the back of a black car from the corner of my eye. My mind and my entire fucking heart scream at me to run after her, but my body doesn’t move, remembering every single bit of training I've had since I enlisted. My feet stay rooted to the ground until they finally dismiss us, but by then Ariana is long gone.

Instead of hanging around to express my condolences to the family of my best friend, I do what I’ve been doing since I got home: I slide in behind the wheel of my truck and run away. As I drive, the world rushes past me so fast that it’s all a blur. It’s the same way everything looked as I watched Brett die. Even though I know the world around me wasn’t rushing by then, it seemed like it was as I watched him advance about fifteen feet in front of me. One second my best friend is alive and excited about going home to his wife, and the next he’s on the ground with a bullet hole through his neck. Everything was a frenzy after that. My first instinct was to dive and pull him to safety without covering my own ass first. Thankfully, I had some good men behind me that picked up my slack as I pulled my already lifeless best friend out of live fire and attempted to save him.

Before I know what I’m doing, I’m at the one place I’ve been avoiding since I got back home. Every time I’ve been here before the house has always been full of life and laughter, but now Brett and Ariana’s house looks as if it’s been sitting empty for a while. The grass is overgrown, weeds litter what used to be Ari’s colorful gardens, and all the shades are drawn. If it weren’t for the cars in the driveway, I would think I was in the wrong place. It takes me a few minutes to work up the courage to slip out of my truck and every step I take feels like my feet are weighted down with cinder blocks.

I finally manage to get up the front stairs, but instead of reaching up and knocking I rest my forehead against the bright red door. Ari and her fucking colors. Brett and I both knew that if he had told her to do anything she wanted, the entire house would probably be a fucking rainbow. It wouldn’t have bothered anyone though. Ariana has always been the girl that could light up your world. She took the darkest days overseas and made them feel like some of the best day of your life just by talking to her. Her personality, the light that she carried inside… it was enough to make you believe that everything was going to be fine. I didn’t see that when I looked at her earlier. I saw a broken shell of the girl that was once there.

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