Insurmountable (Serpentine #1) by Skye Callahan

Author:Skye Callahan [Callahan, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-09T22:00:00+00:00

Haunt Me

Miles

“Alley,” I called as I entered the quiet and seemingly empty apartment. I’d slipped away early when Drake messaged me that something went down in the Commons while Alley had been doing laundry.

The bathroom door was closed, so I tried the handle. Locked.

“Alley.” I pounded on the bathroom door. When she still didn’t answer, I slipped a pin into the hole and pushed the door open.

Alley sank down into the full bathtub until only her face remained above the water, half concealed by her messy hair.

Not messy.

I squinted at her. “What happened?”

A tear rolled down her face and she slipped completely under the water.

“Alley.” I reached into the water and pulled her above the surface. She bit her bottom lip for an instant before a sob broke free. I pushed the hair out of her face and noticed that her eyebrows were gone, and her hair was half chopped off. “What happened?”

She shook her head.

“Did the other girls do this?”

She shook her head again, refusing to answer. We’d come so far, and suddenly we were back to this shit.

“Did you do this?” I knew she hadn’t, but I needed her to give me something.

Again, just a shake of the head.

“Then, who?”

“I can’t,” she whispered. “I don’t know.”

“You can’t tell me or you don’t know?”

“I’m sorry.” She tried to slip away again, but I held tightly to her arm, making sure to keep her above water.

“If it happened on the Commons floor, all I have to do is pull up the footage. I’ll know who did it.”

“No,” she sobbed.

I wished I could just drag the answers out of her. “You don’t have anything to worry about.”

“That’s just the point.”

I clenched my teeth. Nothing was more frustrating than trying to get answers from someone afraid to give them. Against my instinctual anger, I kept my voice calm and steady. “Start at the beginning and tell me what happened, Little Dove.”

“They wanted me to know I’m not better than them. If you go after them, they’ll blame me for that, too.”

I ran my fingers through her wet hair and kissed her forehead. “They’ll get over it, but I can’t simply let them go.”

The water in the tub was barely warm, so I released the plug.

“I’m not ready to get out,” Alley said.

“You’re going to turn into a very wrinkled Little Dove if you stay in the water much longer.”

“Are you going to send me away?”

“You think I would have bothered to get you settled up here if I intended to send you away.”

“It’s only a matter of time,” she muttered. “We’re all replaceable.”

“Don’t fucking listen to Ross.”

“It’s not just Ross. It’s every man who walks into one of these places. We’re all the same. They’re all the same. Another day. Another fantasy. We’re just swirling around the drain waiting to get sucked in and never come back.”

I hit the drain plug before the tub had emptied completely, but she continued staring right at the drain even when the water stilled. “You’re not going anywhere.

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