The Sinner by Scott Emma

Author:Scott, Emma [Scott, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Casziel didn’t come back .

He wasn’t there as I got ready for work Wednesday morning, which was bustling due to Kimberly’s upcoming honeymoon and the disaster in Sri Lanka. Guy was busy making his own departure plans, and Abby hinted more than once that he might ask me to go along with him.

“And you’ll say yes, of course. You and Guy…close quarters in a foreign land. Perfect, right?”

Just a short week ago it would have been perfect. My favorite romantic fantasy come to life. Instead, all I could think about was Casziel. Something had happened after we left karaoke, but I couldn’t remember. Just like everything else with him, it danced at the edges of my awareness. He lived at the edges of my awareness like an unspoken promise. But it seemed every time I tried to grasp the truth of it, it slipped away.

I dragged myself through the workday, then rushed to get home. My place was empty. I wondered if Cas was in trouble with that terrible Ashtaroth. God, even the name sounded monstrous and evil. Or maybe he went back to the Other Side. Except he had eleven days here, which was sort of random, when I thought about it.

He’s not coming back , Deber offered. He grew bored with you—Silly Lucy and her silly, uneventful little life.

My apartment’s silence became deafening. Twilight became full dark, no stars, and still, Cas didn’t return. I heated some leftover casserole, changed into my sleep shorts and T-shirt. I checked and double-checked that my window was open, then went to bed to read. But for the first time, the romance couldn’t hold me or make me fall in.

I shut off the light and lay in the dark, trying to remember what happened after karaoke night. My thoughts began to scatter, turn slippery and indistinct…except for the woman at the warrior’s homecoming. She appeared, and I teetered on the edge of sleep, watching as she

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