Forty Words for Love by Aisha Saeed EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Aisha Saeed
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The first clear moment Raf recalled from that night was the sound of
laughter. Hers.
He’d heard her easy laughter a million times before. But that night it
made his pulse quicken. Picking up his pace, his feet pressed into the
packed sand beneath him. He needed to speak to her. Before he lost his
nerve.
Faint music from the Moonlight Bay Festival carried over from a
distance. He thought he’d glimpsed her slipping away from the celebration.
She’d probably grown weary of the crowds. Maybe she’d gone looking for
him. How would she react when he finally told her how he felt about her?
The golden leaf on his wrist pulsed against his skin. Raf frowned. This
birthmark—the one physical difference between the Golub and the locals—
only ever warmed in warning, when they’d strayed too far from home. The
leaf protects you—it does so at all costs. How many times had Tolki Uncle
said this? But right now, he stood mere steps from his forest home.
Raf slowed. All thoughts of his leaf vanished. There she was. Yas.
Partially obscured by a grove of palmettos, with her back pressed against a
tree. She wore a white sundress. The star-shaped necklace resting against
her collarbone glinted in the moonlight. Her dark hair was loose around her
shoulders.
Before he could take a step toward her, Raf realized she was not alone.
Her boarding-school-raised summer neighbor, Moses, heir to the Holler
Candy fortune—came into view. Moses drew closer to her. Laughed. His
arms encircled her waist. She looked up at him. Their foreheads touched.
Heat flooded Raf’s face. His chest constricted as he stepped back. Why
hadn’t Yas told him? They had been best friends ever since his family fell,
shivering, from the Golub tree over a decade ago. They shared everything
with each other. Didn’t they?
But this was a mercy, wasn’t it? If nothing else, he had his answer. He
didn’t even have to ask.
A sudden jolt of pain burst from his wrist. Electric currents shot through
his body. He doubled over. Tears pricked his eyes. The burning grew
sharper by the second. White-hot. As if the sun itself had burrowed within
his skin. He bit his lip until he tasted blood.
Panic bubbling, Raf staggered toward the shoreline. Only then did he
see that the ordinarily sleepy pink-and-lavender sea had transformed.
Enormous dark waves rose in the distance before crashing to shore. The
color of charcoal. Howling winds whipped through his hair. The chaos
around him mirrored the chaos within. What was happening?
Then came the scream. High-pitched. Wailing. Clenching his jaw, Raf
ran until he found himself before the towering specter of Holler Mansion
and saw the image that would never leave him for as long as he lived: fiveyear-old Sammy Holler lying by the shore. His nanny, Melinda, knelt over
his frame, her body racked with sobs. Sammy lay facedown on the sand. He
didn’t move.
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