Out Of The Ashes (The Ending Series, #3) by Lindsey Fairleigh & Lindsey Pogue

Author:Lindsey Fairleigh & Lindsey Pogue [Fairleigh, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: L2 Books
Published: 2014-08-21T04:00:00+00:00

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Lying in my sleeping bag that night, warm and cozy beside Jake, I stared up at the stars through the netted top of our tent, succumbing to every thought that filtered into my head. My mind failed to do what my body so desperately wanted—to rest.

If I wasn’t thinking about my secret electrotherapy sessions with Gabe and Carlos and the dwindling hope that my memory would return, I was thinking about what had happened with Dani a couple hours earlier. Or I was thinking about my mom and the danger we were all in, or about Jason’s anguish and Sanchez’s and Carlos’s and Camille’s traumatizing pasts. I didn’t want to be the one who knew so many disturbing secrets, but I had to keep quiet because they weren’t my secrets to tell, they weren’t my problems to fix. At the moment, I just wanted my Ability to go away.

With an audible exhale, Jake rolled over to face me.

I looked at him, finding his shadowed eyes in the inky darkness.

“What’s wrong?” he asked quietly, his hand clasping both of mine, which were folded on my chest. “Are you worried about Dani?”

I turned onto my side to face him completely. I could’ve lied, I could’ve told him that I just couldn’t sleep. After all, he would never know what I was really thinking. But I didn’t want to pretend nothing was bothering me anymore. “I’m thinking about secrets, actually, and how much I hate them.”

“Secrets?” He said it with a hint of intrigue.

“Not the good kind,” I clarified.

Jake was quiet for a moment. Over the last few nights, we’d been slowly slipping into a routine that was familiar to him, but was strange to me, and, at times, awkward for both of us. Although he was happy enough being with me, I knew it wasn’t the same for him. Still, he tried, and he did love the new me in his own way, which was as much as I could’ve hoped for.

“I know things about people, too many things,” I whispered, not wanting to think about me a moment longer. I wanted to get the corrosive thoughts out of my head…I needed to get them out in the open.

Jake was quiet.

“Dani’s losing herself to drifting. Jason’s going to try to help her overcome it, but…” I listened to Jake’s deep, even breaths before I continued, hoping that airing out the haunting thoughts in my mind would make me feel better, lighter. “Dani’s contact at the Colony, the woman who saved me back at Colorado Springs, is my mom. She created the Virus, and that night you found me in the house, she’d left me with a letter for Jason and me.” I balled my pillow up underneath my head, wanting to be at eye level with Jake. “She has another family now…she says we’re in danger, that some of the people we trust might try to hurt us…”

I knew I shouldn’t be telling him any of it—these were dangerous secrets, private, powerful

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