Release Date: February 18, 2014
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
The silence and darkness pack in around us
until it feels like I’m floating in emptiness. The thought tightens my stomach.
I shift until I feel the firm side of Luke’s arm pressing back. A flash of
lightning splinters the clouds overhead, momentarily lighting up the gray,
morphing bodies from the inside. Thunder follows a second later, loud and
stark. I jerk, my hand grasping Luke’s forearm.
“Isn’t it supposed to be dangerous to be on a
golf course in a lightning storm?” I ask, but stay rooted to the soft grass.
“That’s when you’re standing up holding a
nine-iron.” Another bolt of lightning flicks in the clouds, followed by
thunder. “Although we may get a little wet. You don’t melt, do you?”
I should sit up, ask him to lead me to
shelter or run for the clubhouse. But Luke’s hand captures mine. He trails lazy
circles with his thumb over the back, up and over my knuckles.
“No, I don’t melt, but Carly might send the
flying monkeys if you allow my hair to get ruined.” At the mention of Carly, my
stomach tightens.
“Is she going to be okay?” I whisper as if
the words themselves show my disloyalty. If I really was questioning her
safety, would I have let her go? What kind of friend am I?
“She’ll be fine. Perhaps a little hazy about
the events of tonight, but that’s it.”
I stare at him. Even with my eyes wide,
Luke’s features are still in complete shadow.
“He’s drugging her?”
I make out the sharp edge of Luke’s profile
just before it disappears. He turns toward me.
“There are no drugs involved. It’s more of
a…memory spell. To help her forget all of Taylin’s mumblings.”
“A spell? How…?”
“It’s sort of like hypnosis.”
“But why shouldn’t she remember what Taylin
said?”
“It will just confuse Carly to know all
that.”
“But I’ll just tell her.” Stop talking, Jule! But my lips don’t
listen. “Unless…” I swallow hard, my throat constricting; I fight to get the
rest out, “…you plan to do the same to me.”
Luke’s face is close, our shoulders now
touching, arms overlapping. When did he move closer? He warms the left side of
my body. “I haven’t decided yet,” he says, as if he’s contemplating which movie
to see.
A sudden thought squeezes my stomach. “Have
you…have you done that before? The forgetting thing? To me?” Did we do more
than kiss the other night? I am still a virgin, despite the close calls with
Derek. I think I would know if we’d…I mean, wouldn’t I know if–
“No, I haven’t.”
I’m able to breathe again. I stare back at
his dark features. Lightning splashes white light over them. It is surreal
lying here under the oncoming storm, staring into the dark, sad eyes of
someone…something sleekly dangerous,
lethally beautiful, totally captivating.
I reach slowly for his face and run one
finger along his rough jaw. “What are you?
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