The Valentine's Dare (The Sycamore Serial Book 1) by Owens Nicolette

Author:Owens, Nicolette [Owens, Nicolette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-14T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

C'est la Vie

For the next half hour Kierra sat by herself in the living room, staring at her phone.

The voicemail message sat on its screen, blinking at her incessantly. She knew she should delete it, but at the same time some part of her needed to hear his voice. Like a wounded animal licking blood from its flesh.

She hit “play” and pressed the phone against her ear.

“You haven’t gotten back to me yet, and I don’t understand.” His voice was low and resentful, his breath heavy against the mouthpiece. “I’m coming back for you, baby. We will be together again. Whatever it takes, forever and ever. I love you.”

A long, strange moment of silence, his breath in her ear; then Brooks hung up, apparently realizing his message was done. No doubt all the others had been some sort of variation of the same, drawn-out pleadings and declarations of love, all full of angry resentment and bubbling violence lurking just beneath the surface.

“End of messages. To delete message, press 7. To save for 30 days, press 9.”

Kierra hit 7, the phone beeping in her hand, robot voice confirming the deletion. She wanted to feel some sort of resolution, a triumph at having listened to his voice, once so loved, and feeling nothing. He told me he loved me and I’m not running into his arms, she thought, wondering why there was nothing left in her heart but emptiness and fear.

Why did I even listen to it if it wasn’t going to help, she wondered. What was the point of putting myself through anything?

Touching her fingertips to her lips, she could feel where Mason’s had once touched her, could close her eyes and imagine him there once more. His voice, soft and easy, caring and accepting, rang in her head.

“He’s nothing like Brooks,” she murmured to herself, lips moving against her fingers.

And at that thought, she suddenly felt alive once more, realizing that she didn’t have to repeat her heartbreaks over and over. If only Mason were still here standing before me so I could tell him.

But she’d already pushed him away.

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