Hello, Dove by Gillian Dowell

Author:Gillian Dowell [Dowell, Gillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

KNOWLEDGE

There’s no preparation for having the veil torn from your eyes so abruptly.

I drove by the light of the moon and the few lights of the town that remained on. My focus wasn’t on the road, but the hollow feeling I had beneath my heart. It was the type of pain that couldn’t force tears, because it couldn’t force anything. I didn’t know how to think properly, or what to think of such a blatantly shattering reveal. I knew better than to find my father and ask him directly, the way a small part of me wanted to. I knew that I didn’t want to turn around and demand to know the reasons why one group of people wanted to uproot my former life entirely.

I knew that I wanted the only person that wasn’t directly involved to help remove this weight that was crushing me. I didn’t know if I would be able to utter a single word of the truth once I saw him, but I knew that I needed to see someone that had yet to hold me down or hold onto a truth that didn’t belong to them.

The street where Luke had said he would be was packed with people sitting atop the hoods of cars that were in rough shape, and others that were too luxurious to be used in such a way. He’d told me where he’d be in case any instance arose where I needed to find him, but I’d never intended to need him for a reason like this. I couldn’t have predicted a situation where I’d need the sight of Luke’s face to remind me that some things in my life were still the same.

He’d only given me the name of the street and not a specific address; but chaos was easily pinpointed. I saw Luke’s car as I sought out a place to park, and walked the three blocks back to the small house of sound that reverberated through the yard once I reached its overgrown lawn.

My mind kept falling back with each step I took forward. What would I do with what I knew? It was a bomb shoved down my throat that was counting down to detonation. It would destroy everything inside me if I kept it down, but if I painfully coughed the intrusion back up, it’s appearance would put the next person at risk. I could sacrifice myself to its damage. Hold onto it just to keep others safe from its effect. But was it more dangerous to be this fatally aware, or to not know of its existence?

Would Gray be better off never knowing that the man he looked up to was hiding behind an illusion? Was I right to want to spare him from something that could break his spirit? Something he didn’t deserve? And how could a woman not know the liar she lies with night after night? Could she be just as unaware as he’d forced Gray and me to be, living our

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