Purity (Cursed #3) by Farrell Claire

Author:Farrell, Claire [Farrell, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction
Published: 2013-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Nathan

Seeing her changed everything. Everything. Gone were my resolutions to forget about curses and soul mates until after we had sorted out pack stuff.

Looking at her felt like home.

“Can I speak to you alone for a minute?” Amelia demanded rather than asked, completely ignoring Dawn and Abbi. I had asked them to come with me for moral support, but judging by Amelia’s expression, that had been a bad idea.

“Go ahead,” Dawn said. “I need to speak to someone anyway.”

“What are you doing?” Amelia asked as soon as they walked away. “Are you completely stupid?”

“I haven’t done anything wrong,” I reminded her.

She stuttered something I couldn’t make out before closing her eyes and taking a few deep breaths. “Bringing them was wrong,” she said in a slightly more level voice. “I asked you and Perdita both to come here so you could talk to each other away from anyone who might interfere. You just ruined that, genius.”

“I get that you’re trying to help, but she doesn’t want to talk to me.”

“If I thought that, do you really think I would make her see you? Come on!”

“Ryan said—”

“Forget what Ryan said! I like Ryan, but keeping you two apart is what’s best for him. I miss having Perdita around, and you obviously do, too, so why not man up, speak to her, and figure out what’s going on?”

“It’s not that simple anymore. After everything that’s happened, she’s finally free. She can walk away from me.”

She frowned. “What if she doesn’t want to, Nathan?” She turned on her heel and joined Connor.

Connor rubbed her back absentmindedly as he spoke, and I felt a pang of something. Almost like homesickness. I wanted to talk to Perdita, but I was afraid for a million reasons. What Ryan said made a lot of sense, but it wasn’t what I wanted, and I realised I had no idea what she wanted. The days of certainty were over. Even before, she had always found ways to disagree with me or get mad at me. How would it be when there was nothing magical keeping us together? I was terrified to find out.

But I wanted to find out.

I wandered outside, disinterested in the party itself. I had only turned up because a tiny part of me had hoped she would somehow be there. No matter what happened, she was still at the forefront of my mind. Even being away for a while hadn’t helped me switch off that part of my brain. She should be with me. I just needed to figure out a way to convince her of that. She had looked mildly horrified when she saw me, so how could I force my presence on her without coming off like a complete dick?

I sat on a bench on the patio at the back of the house. The neighbouring houses were all quite nice, and I wondered why the area was such a ghost town. It had been pretty much crime-free, at least before we werewolves invaded.

“I wondered where you got to,” Abbi called out, joining me on the bench.

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