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His eyes gentle, and he covers the distance between us, his hands reaching out to cup my face as he lowers his mouth to mine, whispering, “I know.”
This is unlike any of our previous kisses.
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bsp; His mouth is soft on mine, almost worshipful, and there is something so unbearably tender about the way he kisses me, making me whimper under his touch. His hands don’t wander from my face and all the shock from today, it settles as he moves his mouth over mine, lovingly, as if soothing all my pain.
I sigh into the kiss, leaning into him.
Jace chuckles, before pulling away.
I give him a dazed look before the first drop of rain falls on my face and I blink.
“Come on.” I’m dragged to the car and forced inside as Jace follows suit.
We sit in silence for a few minutes, before I let out a breath I didn’t know I had been holding in. “This has been one hell of a day.”
“You can say that again.” Jace starts the car. “Do we go back the same way? It’s a dirt road. It might be slippery considering how hard the rain is falling.”
“We can go around,” I tell him. “I mean, it’s a longer route but it will take you out to the edge of the town and then put you back on the main road.”
“Let’s do that then.”
This path is usually less traveled because it takes people through the woods and no one ever preferred that but it’s a sturdier road. As the rain lashes on the hood of the car and the trees fly by, the sky dark, I slowly recall another pitch dark night when it had rained as I was sitting in the passenger seat, my mother sitting beside me, her face pale as she gripped the steering wheel, muttering, “We’ll be fine. It’ll be fine.”
“Mom, what’s going on? I’m scared.”
“Halley.”
“Halley.”
Jace’s voice drags me out of my memory and I blink, confused. “What?”
He shoots me a strange look. “You fell asleep. You were muttering something to yourself.”
Another nightmare?
I run my fingers through my hair, not meeting his gaze. The dream felt so real though. Clearing my throat, I point towards the road. “Keep going straight. The road will end at a T and you have to turn right. That will take you through the woods onto the main road.”
Jace nods.
I sink into my seat. In the silence of the car, the sound of the rain is a constant loud drumming, and for some reason it’s making me uneasy. My eyes are on the road and the looming trees, which are swaying with the gale-ike wind, seem threatening and I cower, unintentionally.
Why am I so scared?
What am I scared of?
As the car moves forward, a sinking sensation settles in my gut and as we near the T, an ominous feeling fills my heart. Even as I watch Jace turn down the road, my hands tremble and I feel a bead of sweat roll down my temple.
He doesn’t seem to notice and keeps driving.
My heartbeat is quickening by the second and I’m afraid my heart will burst out of my chest at some point.
A thick sense of fear, the likes of which I’ve never experienced before, seizes me by the throat as I see the bell tower of the abandoned old church building, and suddenly, I know we can’t go any further or something really bad will happen. “Turn the car around!” I shout.
Jace shoots me a startled look. “Halley?” He sounds confused. “What—?”
I grab his wrist, saying urgently, my eyes wild, “We can’t go down that road. Turn around.”
