Soul of Smoke by Caitlyn McFarland EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Caitlyn McFarland
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Kai
KAI STOOD AT the brink of the precipice, the toes of her worn hiking
boots hanging over the edge. One wrong move would plunge her down the
sheer cliff face to the rock-strewn valley two hundred feet below. A shiver
of adrenaline thrilled from the bottom of her feet to the base of her neck.
She threw out her arms and inhaled the pine-spiked autumn air. It was late
September, and the higher elevations of the Rockies were a motley mix of
yellow, orange, and dusty green. Snow capped the high peaks in the
distance. Not far off, a stream laughed in its rocky bed.
Freedom.
Kai blinked, and the sun disappeared.
“What … ?”
The wind whipped as something passed overhead, huge and dark. Fear
and the sudden feeling that something was wrong overwhelmed her. She
teetered forward, and her foot slipped. The rocks and trees two hundred feet
down suddenly looked too close.
“No!” Kai twisted and managed to fall backward onto solid ground,
scraping her palms on the pebbles that littered the hard dirt. She scrambled
away from the drop, collapsed on her back several feet from the edge, and
threw an arm over her eyes, breathing hard.
“Kai! What the hell? Are you okay?”
Kai winced and pulled her arm away from her face, squinting against the
brightness of the sky at the looming silhouette of Juliet King, her best friend
since preschool and roommate since college.
“You just gave me a heart attack!”
“Yeah. Me too. But did you see that?” Kai pushed herself into a sitting
position and scanned for the helicopter or rogue Cessna or whatever had
buzzed her, but the sky was clear. Nothing except a few scattered clouds.
“I saw you almost fall off a cliff. Like an idiot.” Juli prodded Kai not so
gently in the thigh with her toe. “Any normal person would’ve gone over. I
told you I wasn’t going to put up with this. I know you have to ‘find
yourself,’ but you’ve got to stop taking stupid risks.”
Regret washed over Kai. She climbed to her feet and dusted herself off.
“Yeah, I know.”
She hadn’t been thinking about anything but the moment and the rush.
The wind, the view, the feeling, so much like flying. Every once in a while,
Kai just wanted to feel something other than lost.
Her messy bun had been knocked askew. Kai didn’t want to see the look
of disappointment in Juli’s eyes, so she flipped her head upside down and
smoothed her long soot-black hair into order with her hands, then
straightened and wound it into a bun again.
Juli sighed, a longsuffering sound only the responsible friend in a
twenty-year-long friendship could make. “It’s fine. Just don’t do it again.”
“Deal.”
Juli gave Kai a narrow-eyed look. She was the kind of woman people
liked to describe as “a cool blonde.” Slender. Tall. Sleek. A face like art, a
glare like an ice pick, Kai’s mother used to say. It was good they’d been
friends since preschool, because there was no way Juli, who’d graduated
summa cum laude in pre-med early, would put up
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