How Sinners Fight by Eva Ashwood

Author:Eva Ashwood [Ashwood, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 53585460
Published: 2020-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

An hour later, I’m still exhausted, every bone in my body heavy and spent, but I couldn’t feel better. I feel blissfully alive as Declan absently brushes the tips of his fingers against my bare skin, noticing for the first time that they’re rough, not smooth like Gray’s.

Gray.

My heart still constricts a little bit thinking about him. It might always do that. What we shared isn’t something I think I’ll ever be able to fully shake.

That doesn’t mean what he did was right though. It doesn’t make it okay.

I know that if I bent to his will and left the school like he wants me to, he would still follow me everywhere. Not physically, but haunting my dreams, my thoughts.

And I’m not going to let myself be used like that. Tossed around. Bruised. I’ve seen the world chew up and spit out the remains of people I care about, and I won’t let that happen to me.

The three of us lie on the bed in exhausted silence. I doze for a while, and when I wake up, Declan’s eyes are closed too and Elias is playing some game on his phone. He’s cute as fuck, lying in bed in just his boxers, his gaze intent on the screen. When he loses whatever level he’s on, he turns to me with a boyish grin on his face.

“Hey, Blue, wanna hear something?” he asks, pulling up Spotify on his cell before I have time to respond. “Check this out.”

Declan stirs beside me, blinking awake as Elias selects a song on his phone. When the opening chords play through the little speaker, I immediately recognize them, though I’m not sure from where at first.

That is, until a deep baritone voice I know all too well begins to sing.

“Holy fuck,” I murmur.

My gaze snaps to Declan, who’s wide awake now and suddenly looking very sheepish, the faintest pink touching the corners of his cheeks.

It’s the song he sang for me on the rooftop of the hospital. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard it, and even then, I only heard a rough version unlike the studio version that’s playing right now, but I recognize the sweet, haunting melody.

“Declan,” I say, sitting up on the bed. “That’s your song… that’s you.” He nods but doesn’t say anything, glancing down at his hands as he chews his lower lip. “I thought you said—”

“—he wasn’t ever going to release any of his music,” Elias finishes for me. “He wasn’t. And he wasn’t even going to show this to you because he’s such a humble asshole.”

Declan finally laughs, glancing up at me through lashes that would make any girl jealous. “I put it up on YouTube just before Christmas… I’d thought about what you said when we smoked on the roof.” He runs a hand through his already tousled hair, shaking his head. “You said it wasn’t right not to share it with the world, so I decided what the hell. I figured the worst that could happen would be that no one would listen to it.

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