Silver - By Kailin Gow Page 0,35
hold her tight like he did before. “I love both of you. Perhaps that’s why I love you two… because you are brothers and are alike in ways, but different. I’m sorry, Fal on, but I can’t help loving Kevin, too.”
“Wel , the jealousy is kil ing me, Briony. You were my girlfriend first. You were mine first…” Fal on said, his voice thick with emotion. Then he looked at her, his face contorted in pain. “Then it’s over. It’s obvious you don’t love me the way I love you.” Fal on turned and fled away, leaving Briony standing there alone in the open behind the diner.
She tried to keep herself from fal ing apart and failed, the first tears fal ing even before Fal on had completely fled out of view.
Chapter 13
The worst part was that Briony couldn’t just go home. With Fal on walking out like that, every fiber of her being wanted to just head back to the inn, curl up in her room, and pretend that none of it had ever happened. She couldn’t, though. She couldn’t just walk out in the middle of her shift at the diner, especial y not with George so close to the edge.
So she had to work through the rest of it, aware al the time of the way some of the customers were staring.
They had seen her pul ing her boss off Jil , then kissing Fal on, and probably figured out she and Fal on had broken up when Briony walked back into the diner after crying. Stil she worked her shift, fetched their orders, and made sure that they were having a good time.
It wasn’t easy. A couple of the younger ones, whom Briony recognized from school, smirked in a way that made it clear that the night’s events would quickly be al around the school rumor mil . Some of the other diners looked at her with everything from annoyance at disrupting their meals to pity. Briony wasn’t sure which was worse.
Final y though, the last of them left, they were able to close up, and Briony went home. There was no sign of Jake. Not that Briony had time to miss him, because she stil had homework and catching-up to do for her classes the next day. By the time she was done with it al , she was ready to col apse into bed.
She showered and got ready to sleep, wrapping her robe around her as she headed downstairs to get a last glass of water. Though Briony suspected it would take a lot more than that to make her feel better at the moment.
Currently, her emotions were knotting and twisting inside her every time she thought of Fal on. How could he assume that she was sleeping with Kevin? How could he pressure her like that?
Briony was stil thinking about it as she padded upstairs to her room. Maybe that was why she ignored the smal feelings of wrongness in the pit of her stomach.
Maybe that was why she didn’t notice that her bedroom door, which she had left ajar, was now careful y shut. She swung it open and stepped inside.
“Hel o, Briony.”
Briony gave a smal scream of shock. There, perched on the very edge of her bed, was Pietre, Wicked’s master vampire. He looked as immaculately ordinary as ever in a wel -cut suit, and sat there with his fingers steepled like an accountant about to deliver bad news. Only the sense of utter vileness radiating from him betrayed him, undercutting the smile he flashed.
“Did I startle you? Oh, perhaps Sophie didn’t do such a good job of training you after al .”
“Good enough to stake you if you don’t get out of my room.”
Pietre’s smile only broadened. “Real y? Without any weapons at hand?” He nodded to the dresser, where Briony’s cross lay. She had forgotten she had removed it, and now, the odds of her getting to it in time were simply too long. “With you so utterly… helpless?”
Fear blossomed in Briony then. She had seen some of what Pietre could do, and right now, there wouldn’t be anything she could do to stop him. Slowly, deliberately, Pietre stood. He moved close to her, not quite touching her, but making it clear that he could any time that he chose to.
“Jake wil be back soon,” Briony tried.
Pietre shook his head. “Your abomination of a brother wil be back eventual y, but not in time to be relevant to this.