Last Day of Love by Lauren Kate EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Lauren Kate
- Language: English
- Genre: Epic Fantasy
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Today is my eighteenth birthday. Tomorrow I swear o love.
It’s absurd. I’ve never kissed a girl, never asked anyone out. I’ve
never slipped my arm around a waist, hoping for encouragement to
let it stay. I’ve never danced entangled in another’s limbs, never
irted in a hallway or teased someone and walked away.
And yet tomorrow, when I give up love, everything will change.
I’ll still be Ander—blond and pale, immune to illness, able to blend
into any background—but I won’t be me anymore. I won’t be what I
am today.
Because for as long as I have known Eureka, my love for her has
dened me. And though she knows nothing of my existence, I’ve
known her all my life. My secret dies in the woods tonight, along
with a thousand smaller passions. The Passage is what matters, not
the life I’ll lose.
A knock on my door startles me. My uncle doesn’t wait, enters my
dark room.
“Are you packed?” Albion closes the blinds above my bed, erasing
the knife made of moonlight that was splitting my chest in two.
Albion makes a room feel cold. Like all my relatives, his
movements make no sound. He has no scent. His voice is clear but
somehow never disturbs the silence. Only his shape and his eect on
the temperature tell me that I’m not dreaming. I pull my blanket
higher.
In the twin bed across the room, my uncle Critias stretches stiy
and sits up. His naked body is muscular, strong. He looks younger
than Albion, though both of them are thousands of years old.
Albion looks at him. “He isn’t packed yet, is he?”
“Are you packed?” Critias asks me.
“I’m packed.” I glance at the backpack I’ve been lling slowly for
months. It’s only one night in the woods, but I will take my entire
childhood with me. Then I will leave it there.
“Get up, then. Get going,” Albion says.
On a slanted plank between his bed and the wall, Critias begins
his hundred push-ups.
“Happy birthday,” he tells me, lifting into number thirteen.
The Passage is a walk in the woods. You go in a boy; you come
out a man. Every member of my family goes through this ritual on
the night we turn eighteen. When I complete the Passage I’ll be a
Seedbearer, like the aunts and uncles who raised me. I’ll know the
secrets that have always swirled around me, vapors I’ve been
forbidden to inhale. I’ll begin to live forever.
My dog, Shiloh, sleeps at the foot of my bed. When I rise he
nudges me with his damp nose. I rub the spotted crown of his head.
“I’ll miss you, too.”
“Shiloh’s going with you,” Critias says, his voice slightly mued
as he drags a sweater down his torso in the dark.
For a moment, I’m elated. Then I remember the rules. “Why is he
coming with me?”
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