Still Waters (Greenstone Security Book 1) by Anne Malcom

Author:Anne Malcom [Malcom, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Greenstone Security Book #1
Publisher: Anne Malcom
Published: 2017-03-30T18:30:00+00:00

It was after eggs and drugs that consequences came.

Wasn’t that always the way?

I had stood up to take my plate to the sink, and Keltan had followed, snatching the plate from my hands with a glare.

I rolled my eyes.

“I’m actually fine. A broken arm isn’t going to hamper me from living my life,” I told him. “Though it will stop me from wearing some great tops.”

Instead of grinning like he had been for the meal, during which we kept to safe subjects that didn’t have any chance of bringing reality in, he glowered.

“Yeah. A broken arm might now. Could have been a fuck of a lot worse.”

I gave him a look. “But it wasn’t.”

He turned from the sink, his face a mask. “But it fucking could have been. Because of that club. Because of the shit tangled up with it.”

I put my hands on my hips. Well one hand. The cast kind of fucked with the pissed-off-woman stance. “That wasn’t the club’s fault. They would never put anyone in danger on purpose. Not Bex, not Rosie. Not me. Those men would die first. They almost have. Many times.”

Keltan’s eyes glittered, mind working over something as he stared at me.

“Yeah, and so have you, Bex, Gwen, Amy, Lily, Mia,” he listed. “It did kill a woman, Snow,” he murmured. “And a man. Part of him, anyway. Don’t know the fucker well, and I know he’s found it now, but when I first saw him, I saw it. That yawning chasm that was ripped out of him when he lost her. His woman. It’s filled now, but I don’t doubt that poor bastard has battled through the nine levels and then some to get where he is.” His breathing turned rough. “That ain’t gonna be me. I’m not letting you have the same fate as—”

“Stop!” I screeched, my voice rough even to my ears. “You don’t get to say her name because you don’t know her. You don’t know anything about her death or her life. And you don’t know that she was a light that only shone so bright because she had her other half. I know for a fact that if she knew her fate the moment she laid eyes on Bull, she wouldn’t have done anything differently. As much as I wish and pray my friend would’ve, if time machines or magicians were ever real. I know it. Because she was a princess. Not the ones in the books, but the kind who believed in that nonsense. She lived for it. Breathed for it. And she found it. In this ugly world where not enough fairy tales are even begun, she found it. Her end was as ugly as anyone could conjure up.”

I paused, flinching at the memory of that horrible day the sun didn’t shine quite as bright. Still did. “But I still know, as much as it kills me, that there was no other option for her.” I eyed him. “Don’t you dare talk about my dead friend like you know what path she could have taken.

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