The Lingering Grace by Jessica Arnold EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jessica Arnold
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“I’m so sorry.”
Tony turned on his left blinker. “Didn’t your dad say something about
getting you a car soon?”
Alice gave a single, grating laugh. “He’s been saying that ever since I
got a license.” Tony knew this as well as she did; if he was teasing, she
wasn’t in the mood. She slouched down in the passenger seat as they pulled
into the library parking lot. It was almost empty; the library was closing in
twenty-five minutes. She rapped her fingers against the car door, gripping a
notebook and a pen tightly in her other hand.
“Hey.” Tony parked. He grabbed her arm before she could jump out
of the car. “Everyone forgets an assignment sometimes.”
She tried to smile, but her mouth ended up in a lopsided grimace.
“You’re right. I’ve just been so … you know.”
Concern flashed across Tony’s face, and his grip on her arm tightened
for a second before he let go. Alice clicked her pen as they hurried into the
library. She’d had this assignment for weeks—how could she have left it
until now? This wasn’t like her. Tony grabbed her hand as they walked and
she looked down at their entwined fingers, glad that this at least was
surviving, despite her half-present brain.
It wasn’t sudden, this relationship, so it baffled her why it still felt
fragile—why she was still relieved every time he wanted to spend time with
her. They’d been officially dating for two months now, and they’d known
each other for three. She was certain she had gotten the better end of the
deal; Tony had been helping her keep her head above water ever since last
summer. Meeting him had been one of the only good things to come out of
that vacation from hell. He’d helped save her life when she had nearly died,
the victim of a witch’s curse on a creepy old hotel.
Physically, her recovery had only taken a few weeks. But everything
else … well, it was still an uphill battle. Daily life was mundane and mindnumbingly routine—more meaningless than it had ever seemed before.
Alice zoned out on a regular basis. The world would fall away and she
would stare into space, not thinking anything, not feeling anything but the
empty space inside her where everything was quiet. That empty space had
never been there before, and it was only with Tony that she felt it close up
for a few precious hours at a time. Only with Tony was she herself again.
Tony noticed her looking at him and smiled.
“We’ll find something here. I know it.”
“We’d better.”
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