Let The Wind Rise (Sky Fall, #3) by Shannon Messenger

Let The Wind Rise (Sky Fall, #3) by Shannon Messenger

Author:Shannon Messenger [Messenger, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2016-04-26T07:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 29

VANE

I want to race back to Audra, wrap my arms around her, and screw this whole slow-and-steady plan I came up with.

But the sadness I saw in her eyes keeps me moving away.

It reminds me too much of the first time we got together, and I know what it means. She needs to heal again before she’ll be ready for anything more—and not just emotionally this time.

I’m sure that bloodstained jacket is hiding something way worse than she’s letting on. Especially when I look at Gus.

I watch him and Solana scale the mechanisms of the turbine, and all I can think is . . . How is he still alive?

I’m glad he is—but his injuries?

There. Are. No. Words.

He catches me staring and gives me an exaggerated wink, like that will somehow make me forget his swollen face and shredded chest.

Audra comes up beside me—close enough that I can feel her heat through the air. I take a breath and remind myself: slow and steady.

“How bad is he?” I ask. “Tell me the truth.”

I wasn’t sure if she would, but she gives me the full horror story. By the end I have to bend over to get some blood to my head so I don’t pass out.

“Are you okay?” she asks.

Once again, I can’t believe that I’m the one being comforted.

I suck in a huge gulp of air, trying to drag myself together. “I’m just worried about you. Having to see all of that . . .”

“It was nothing compared to what Gus had to face.”

Maybe—and thank God, even if I know it’s crazy selfish to think that.

But still.

“You don’t have to downplay what you’ve gone through, Audra. It had to be awful.”

She swallows hard and looks away. “It was.”

They’re two teeny words—but they crush every part of me.

I reach up to wipe away her fresh tears. “I wish I knew how to help.”

“You are helping. You’re here.”

“I am—not that you really needed me. I should’ve known you’d find a way to escape.”

“It wasn’t me,” she says. “It was Gus. I don’t know how I would’ve gotten through this without him.”

I . . . don’t know what to say.

I’m glad Gus was there for her—well, not glad, given that Gus is basically a walking wound right now because of it.

But I’m glad she wasn’t alone.

It’s just . . .

“I wish I could’ve been there.”

If this were a movie, that would be her cue to give some big sappy speech about how I was there—always on her mind—and how the very thought of seeing me was what kept her going.

But this is Audra, so she tells me, “I’m glad you weren’t.”

She does take my hand, though, and sparks tingle everywhere our skin touches.

Even without our bond.

Even in this horrible place.

Even with all the complications piling up between us.

She’s everything.

My less noble side starts screaming, SCREW THE SLOW-AND-STEADY PLAN!

Even my noble side tries to convince me that bonding again might help her heal.

I lean a little closer—and I swear she leans closer to me.



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