Every Wound We Mend by J.E. Parker EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: J.E. Parker
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Romance
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JAMES
A hurricane raged inside my chest.
Fueled by a lifetime of toxic hatred and crippling grief, it battered my
fractured heart, further destroying it with every anguished second that ticked
by.
Soon, it would shatter entirely.
And when it did, my vicious cycle of mistakes and continual failures,
both of which had led to me losing the only woman who’d ever laid claim to
my fucked-up soul, would deal the final blow.
My boiling blood ran cold at the thought.
Veins filling with what felt like chunks of jagged ice, I fisted my hands
and raced through downtown Toluca, my sneaker-covered feet pounding the
cracked sidewalk in time with my hammering pulse.
Sweaty form enveloped by the darkness of the breezy night, I watched as
bolts of lightning flashed in the distance, warning of the violent storms to
come.
It was a warning I didn’t heed.
Chest aching and teetering on the edge of delirium, I ignored the way the
hairs on the back of my neck stood on end as the storm cell drew closer.
Not giving a single damn about the danger surrounding me, I pumped my
legs harder, demanding my body move faster as the wind intensified and
whipped around the dark buildings that loomed around me, trying its
damnedest to prevent me from reaching the place where the other half of my
heart’s ghostly presence still lingered, calling out to my dying soul like a
siren’s song.
Calves on fire, I turned the last corner.
Vision locking on the abandoned paper mill, more than one memory, all
of them linked to some of the most beautiful moments of my life, surfaced.
Agony then seared my soul.
I made it halfway up the narrow city alleyway before the inky sky opened
up and allowed an ocean of rain to begin falling.
Plummeting to earth in sheets of tepid water, the heavy drops struck my
unshaven face like needles, mixing with the hot tears that stained my cheeks
as lightning danced above me.
I half expected a bolt to strike me down.
Part of me wished it would.
Death would have equaled mercy from the excruciating torment that
occupied the gaping void losing Carmen had created. Too bad a reprieve was
a gift I didn’t deserve. Not after the many wrongs I’d committed and the
devastating pain I’d inflicted.
For my sins, I had to suffer.
Until the very end.
Reaching the side of the mill, I climbed the steps on autopilot, driven
purely by the need to inhale the same air my woman had once breathed.
Without a grave to visit, a tombstone to lay flowers upon, or a single
picture to look at, being here, where she’d sought refuge from the piece of
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