Midnight Salvation by Penelope Black EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Penelope Black
- Language: English
- Genre: Women’s New Adult & College Fiction
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SILAS
“SILAS, they’ve breached the compound. Get home, son.”
Ma’s words seem to echo around the car. Each word, each syllable,
pinging off of me. Bouncing off of Bane, and rebounding off of Nova. Just
ricocheting around like pinballs in that old arcade game Hunter’s been
asking me to buy ever since him and Evangeline talked about two weeks
ago.
Hunter.
I suck in a breath like I’m doing eighty up a mountainside and the air is
thinning by the second.
I thought I knew what anxiety was. That I’d spent too many moments in
my lifetime with it, too many days submerged in its thick, syrupy
exhaustion. But all of that was nothing compared to what’s flooding my
veins and short-circuiting my brain right now.
My father was never going to win any parenting awards, and it sure as
fuck didn’t feel like he ever put his kids first. But maybe he did the best he
could with the tools he had. He was a fucking outlaw in every sense of the
word.
I didn’t quite understand it until now—I didn’t understand him. Until
I’m slipping through the quicksand of terror over my boy’s safety. And the
cool clarity hovers above the anxiety like mist on the lake.
There is nothing I won’t do for Hunter.
No piece of my soul I won’t corrupt to save his.
Maybe my father and I aren’t all that different after all.
How many days did he wake up and think: Is today the day? Is today
the last day I get to see my sons?
How many days should a man wake up and think that before he does
something about it? How long can a heart last under that kind of stress?
This kind of all-consuming emotion is so much more potent than
anxiety. It’s weaponized terror wrapping its barbed wire talons around my
throat, squeezing tighter and tighter and tighter.
The silence crackles, and I swear fragments of Ma’s words float around
the air like microscopic particles. It’s only been a minute since Ma’s voice
filled the car, telling us to come home, but it might as well have been an
eternity.
The sharp prickling sensation of goosebumps erupts across my skin,
followed by shivers that cascade down my spine. My knuckles turn white as
I clench the steering wheel, weaving through the sparse traffic on the
highway. Thank fuck for small miracles.
“Call Ma again,” I tell Nova, meeting his gaze in the rearview mirror.
He holds his phone up to his ear, his eyes narrowed with worry. When I
meet his gaze again, he’s already shaking his head.
“I’ll keep trying,” Nova says.
The sense of urgency in the air is palpable, thick enough to choke on.
My muscles tense reflexively, the adrenaline and flight or fight instinct
riding me hard.
Nature’s fucked-up game of survival. I thought we were the predators
today. But I’d been wrong.
So fucking wrong. And fucking naive to assume they were playing by
the rules. And all I can do now is pray that the damage done is survivable.
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