Nocte by Courtney Cole

Author:Courtney Cole [Cole, Courtney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary
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Goodreads: 23312692
Publisher: Lakehouse Press
Published: 2014-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

Save me.

Save me.

Save me.

Calla calla calla calla calla calla calla calla

I will save you calla. Calla calla calla.

I tear my eyes away from the painful words, wrenching them away, because once again, just like always, Finn calls out for me when he’s afraid.

Even in written words on the pages of his journal.

He thinks I’m the only one who can save him and I have to agree.

But he also thinks he needs to save me, which is slightly ridiculous.

I’m the only one who understands. I’m the only one who knows. And I can’t tell anyone, because if I do, my father will have no choice but to send Finn to a mental institution, and I know enough to know that he’d never get out. They’d keep him.

So I have to save him without telling anyone.

And the only way to do that, is to read his innermost thoughts. All of them.

I shift my gaze out the window, into the rain, and I’m startled to find Finn gone, but Dare is in his place. Jogging along the trail, up from the beach, he strides confidently and unaffected by the downpour.

In fact, when he’s on the edge of the lawns, out in front of my window, he stops abruptly.

Then his gorgeous face tilts upward and his eyes meet mine.

I stop breathing.

I stop thinking.

I just lift my hand to the glass, pressing it there, as though Dare’s hand is resting against my own. The rain runs in rivulets down the pane, around my fingers like tears, and Dare’s eyes soften. Without a word, he lifts his hand.

He holds it there, as though he’s touching me. As though he’s comforting me from things he has no knowledge of.

But what I know, is that he is comforting me.

His presence comforts me.

He knows it. That’s why he stands in the rain for several minutes more, for so long, until he’s absolutely drenched, until finally, finally, he drops his hand and continues on his way, through the rain and onto the trails.

He disappears into the canopy of trees, and then he’s gone.

Gone from me.

I realize something as I linger with Finn’s crazy thoughts in my lap.

I’ve never felt quite so alone before.

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