The Bride of Glass (Glass Vault Book 2) by Candace Robinson

Author:Candace Robinson [Robinson, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Perrie

After our encounter with the mermaid we decided to sleep in a house tonight. We hadn’t come into contact with any other sign of life today. I think most of the people from the Glass Vault have gone farther off.

All day I couldn’t help but worry about Vale. I know he’s going to find me eventually before we’re prepared to try and take him down. I don’t think there’s a way. I feel…lost.

Maisie is already fast asleep beside me, probably dreaming about sunshine and rainbows. She almost wouldn’t sleep in the bed, until we found a spare set of sheets in the linen closet. She’s so lucky she can think optimistically about everything. Who would have known after all she’s gone through she could still continue to be strong and positive.

I’m going to make myself be strong, too. I can no longer be a coward anymore. As I listen to her silent breathing, I’m flooded with relief that we found each other. If I was still out there on my own, running away from Vale, I don’t know if I could have survived.

Then my eyes tear up as I think about Dad. Before, when I was in the Glass Vault, I didn’t worry about them so much because Dad, my aunt, and uncle were all safe. Now, they aren’t anymore. We were always all together, and now we won’t be. I brush the tears away from my face and try to close my eyes again, but I can’t sleep. All I see are green eyes. Eyes I long to gaze in, and eyes I want to run from.

Gently, I push the covers off and get out of bed. I tiptoe quietly out of the room, closing the door softly behind me, so I don’t wake Maisie. I head into the living room where Nev is on watch for now. The lantern beside him casts light on his pinkish scars, and I can’t help but know they’re my fault. I’m the reason he went to the museum that day.

“Can’t sleep?” he asks.

I shake my head. “No. I can take watch. You get some rest.” It’s better someone gets some sleep while they can.

He lets out a half-hearted laugh. “I don’t think I could sleep if I wanted to. I’m a mess, you’re a mess, the world is a mess.”

“Maisie’s not a mess.” At least ninety-percent not a mess.

“Well, Maisie is special,” Neven says quietly, quickly looking away from me as if he has said something wrong. I know that look on his face.

I walk to where he’s sitting on the couch, grab cheeks in my hands and turn his face to look at me. “You like her.”

He pulls his face out of my hands, and I sit next to him on the soft cushion. “Don’t lie to me, Nev.”

Nev whips his head to mine with his lips pursed tight. “I haven’t ever lied to you. I always told you I never lied about anything.”

I jab a finger at his chest. “No, you didn’t lie to me, but you want to now, don’t you?”

“It doesn’t matter, anyway.

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