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Chapter 71

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NYLA

ONE WEEK LATER.

I stood in front of the mirror, smoothing the folds of my black dress for what felt like the hundredth time. The tiny veil pinned to my hair didn’t need adjusting, yet my fingers hovered over it. I had told myself I was ready, but somehow readiness didn’t feel like this. The room smelled faintly of Kael’s cologne lingering from yesterday, he had decided not to leave me throughout the preparation. Finally it was the day of the burial.

“Done?” Kael’s voice broke through my
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  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 152

    NYLA I looked at the phone in my hand and then at Grimes standing in front of me waiting with patience. He had given me the phone to call Kael, but I knew I had to act fast and by myself some time. I opened the phone and typed the number I wanted and pressed dial before I could think too much about whether it would work or whether the signal would reach or whether the person on the other end would pick up at whatever hour it was in whatever city they had brought me. It rang twice then Jason picked up. "Hello?" His voice came through immediately, alert in the way people are alert when they get calls from numbers they weren't expecting at such hours. "Hello, I can't talk much." I kept my voice completely steady. "Help me.....Grimes has me, please come now." I didn't say anything else because I didn't have the chance to say anything else. Grimes reached over and took the phone from my hand, he had been watching the call and had heard enough. He looked at the screen and then at m

  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 151

    NYLACold was the first thing I felt before my eyes adjusted to the darkness. Then the particular discomfort of a hard surface underneath me that was not a bed or a chair or anything designed for a person's comfort.I sat up too fast and my head paid for it immediately, a sharp insistent pressure behind my eyes that made me press my hand against my temple and wait for it to pass. My mouth tasted wrong, chemical and dry that reminded me immediately of what had happened on that street.I looked around in the dark room that had concrete walls from what I could make out. One light source, a single fixture in the ceiling, dim enough that it took my eyes a moment to adjust fully. A door on the far wall with no handle on my side.I looked at my hand and felt cold move through me, the ring was gone."Hello." My voice came out rougher than I expected, scraped raw from whatever they had used to knock me out. I cleared my throat. "Is anyone out there."I got to my feet carefully with my tied h

  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 150

    NYLA"I need to go find him," I said.I thought about the last time I had left somewhere I was supposed to stay. The secure location outside the city. Courtney's voice telling me we needed to go, and the guards I had called off. The car ride and the house and everything that had happened after. Kael had found me that time.He had tracked the driver's phone and driven forty minutes and found me and the look on his face when he walked through that door was not something I was in any hurry to produce again.I answered quickly. “Jason, are you still there?”Fear started pressing against my ribs hard enough to hurt.“Maybe he’ll answer me on my line,” I said, though I suddenly wasn’t sure.“Nyla—”“I’ll call you back.”I hung up before he could say anything else and immediately dialed Kael.The call rang and rang before it slipped into voicemail.I stared at the screen.“No,” I whispered and I called again but it was the same result.I got up from the bed and started pacing. “Come on, Kae

  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 149

    NYLAThe first thing I noticed when I woke up was the silence. I stayed still beneath the sheets, staring at the pale gold sunlight coming through the curtains while my body slowly caught up with consciousness. My hand moved instinctively across the bed beside me. It was empty, Kael wasn't back.A tiny knot formed in my stomach before I could stop it. I pushed myself upright quickly, scanning the suite as if he might somehow appear from thin air. The bathroom light was off, I didn't hear running water or movement from the sitting area.“Kael?” My voice came out rough from sleep.There wasn't any answer, he wasn't in the bathroom.I exhaled slowly and rubbed at my face, trying not to let the uneasiness settle too deep. He’d told me there were still things he needed to handle. Even though he knew the authorities would handle Grimes, he still wanted to tie all loose ends, contact some people. Problems that wouldn’t disappear just because we wanted one quiet night together.Still,

  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 148

    MIA My phone rang at two in the morning and I knew before I looked at the screen that it wasn't going to be anyone ordinary. Nothing good called at two in the morning so I picked up. "Mia." The voice came through calm and unhurried. "I trust you're well." I sat up in bed. "Dad....." "In the flesh." A pause. "Relatively speaking." "How are you out?" I said. "Details for another time," he said. "What matters is that I'm out and the game is very much still running. I need you sharp and I need you ready and I need you to understand that everything that happened over the past several weeks was a setback, not an ending." I pressed my fingers against my forehead and thought about what that meant. About Evans and his daughter and Kael and Nyla and the engagement that had apparently happened based on the photo circulating on every platform since this morning. About everything I had been sitting with since the walls started closing in and I realized I was the only person in

  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 147

    NYLA "Regardless of this, it won't spoil our moment." Kael spoke up first after the photo. "Hey, we are still headed to the hotel," He informed his assistant and the driver nodded The hotel room door had barely clicked shut before Kael's hands found my waist and spun me around. "We have a few hours to ourselves" His voice was gravel, eyes dark in a way that had nothing to do with the bad news and everything to do with me. "Then stop wasting it." He kissed me hard, it wasn't the sweet, careful kind he'd given me when I said yes on that rooftop. This was different, it was hunger that had been sitting behind his head all morning, finally let loose. I grabbed the lapels of his jacket and shoved it off his shoulders and he laughed against my mouth, low and rough. "I can see you have been impatient," he murmured. "You proposed to me three hours ago and I've barely touched you since." I pulled back just enough to meet his eyes. "I've been very patient, Kael." Something

  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 37

    NYLA The name hit me strangely. Even though I had never met her. “And you are Nyla,” she continued before I could respond. “I have heard quite a bit.” I felt the driver shift beside me. “What do you want?” I asked. Her lips curved faintly. “Direct. I like that.” She stepped closer, not

  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 36

    NYLAThe soft echo of my own footsteps followed me from one room to another like I was searching for something I had misplaced. Or someone.Kael didn’t come home throughout. It was almost sunset.He didn’t text or call. And I told myself that it was normal. That men like him had late meetings and u

  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 35

    KAELThe door had barely clicked shut behind Caitlyn when the air in my office shifted.Her perfume still lingered faintly, something, the life she chose or was chosen for her. I stared at the door for a long second, half-expecting her to walk back in and say she’d been joking. That this was some

  • After He Let Me Fall    Chapter 34

    KAELCaitlyn tilted her head when I finally stepped aside.“Are you going to keep staring at me like I’m a ghost, or are you going to let me into your office?” she said lightly.I exhaled through my nose. Of course she would start like that. Typical Caitlyn, always straight into my space like she’d

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