Twice Bitten (2014)
“I gave her a pitiful smile.
She stepped aside and held open the door. Walking into the foyer, I was immediately comforted by the sounds and smells of home—lemon furniture polish, cinnamon and sugar, the slightly musty smell of an older home, the low murmur of the television.
“Couch,” she directed. “Sit.”
I did, taking a seat on the middle cushion.
Mallory grabbed a handful of tissues from a box on the side table, then sat beside me, handed them over, and pushed the hair from my ...face. “Tell me.”
I did. I told her about the shifter bar, the pizza, the chocolate. I told her about the party, Gabriel’s friendship, and the bully; about Ethan’s reaction and the “risk” he was willing to take. By the end of it, I was in her arms, crying into her shoulder. Crying like a girl whose heart had been shattered into tiny, brittle pieces, even if it had been my fault for falling in the first place.MoreLess
She stepped aside and held open the door. Walking into the foyer, I was immediately comforted by the sounds and smells of home—lemon furniture polish, cinnamon and sugar, the slightly musty smell of an older home, the low murmur of the television.
“Couch,” she directed. “Sit.”
I did, taking a seat on the middle cushion.
Mallory grabbed a handful of tissues from a box on the side table, then sat beside me, handed them over, and pushed the hair from my ...face. “Tell me.”
I did. I told her about the shifter bar, the pizza, the chocolate. I told her about the party, Gabriel’s friendship, and the bully; about Ethan’s reaction and the “risk” he was willing to take. By the end of it, I was in her arms, crying into her shoulder. Crying like a girl whose heart had been shattered into tiny, brittle pieces, even if it had been my fault for falling in the first place.MoreLess
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