Long Way Down Summary Novels & Stories

and closes the door behind him. I hold my breath until I hear the truck leave, then walk to the window to watch it drive down the road until I can’t see or hear it anymore. Then I sink to my knees and cry until I can’t cry anymore. The mixture of thoughts and emotions is so hard to explain. Deep down, I know Rob"s full of shit, and at the same time, I believe I’m a lazy fat-ass, and everyone thinks so.

I just finished reading the last book when I started to write Descent for real! The title when this was still a draft was actually ‘Can’t Help Falling (In Love With You)’ because I was listening to the same song only the dark version at the time. But I got annoyed because I felt it was too freaking long to be a title. For a time, I settled calling the story "Fall from Grace" in my head but it still felt wrong... so when I searched for a synonym, the meaning of the word descent.. clicked; it feels like it perfectly sums up the entire plot.

Khailah P.O.V The filthy and packed semi-truck that we were in finally came to a stop. At least 100 or so females are inside here with me. Some of the ladies were crying, yelling for help, praying, or mumbling incoherently. Some of the more recent kidnapped companions are banging on the walls. While yelling to be freed! I’m actually not sure how many of us are stashed in the back of here. There are no lights inside here and my cellphone battery finally died two days ago. We’ve been in this truck for almost a week now, I believe. The only times that they’ve stopped were to add more females. When my phone still had some power, I turned it on to airplane mode to preserve the battery. And used t

I was left standing alone in the darkness of the night like a clown that no one cared about. I made an appointment for an abortion on my phone. Then, I turned to leave. I'd spent the past 15 years trying and failing to win Benjamin's heart. If that was the case, I didn't want it anymore. It was late at night when I returned to the nearest town. I got a room at a hotel and drifted off into a restless sleep. In the wee hours of the morning, I was jolted awake by the ringing of my phone. My superior at the TV station sounded anxious yet excited. "I heard a 5.3-degree earthquake happened at the old settlement near your location. You need to head there immediately to get the latest scoop!"

He said she had to repay my suffering. Later, he cast her out into the bitter cold, banishing her to some distant, frozen exile. Eden couldn't take it anymore. The day I gave birth to our pup, word came that she'd died on the road, her body finally broken by all she'd endured. After Eden's death, Alan, Dexter, and Hank came to me again. They were a pitiful sight. Hank had grown gaunt, his frame noticeably thinner. Without Mom, Dad, or my support, their pack's status and wealth had collapsed. They were barely hanging on.

"You can’t believe any word he says. I’m different. I keep myself clean and strictly follow the code of male virtue. We are perfect match destined for each other." I couldn't help but laugh at his absurd self-praise. Yet, influenced by Killian's madness, somehow, my mind suddenly drifted back to the first time I met Nicolas. [Flashback] Back then, having suffered severe physical and emotional trauma, I was nothing but a walking shell. I strolled aimlessly along the seaside, and in a daze, wandered deep into the ocean. Just before I lost consciousness, a slender, bony hand tightly grabbed my wrist, pulling me back from the abyss.

I registered Silas talking with Saint and Atlas, trying to figure out the best way to get everyone safely below ground as I worked, but I elected to let the males puzzle out this portion of our plan themselves, unaware of the obstacles standing in our way due to having never traveled this way in the past. My stomach rumbled hungrily as they plotted, the muscles starting to cramp from a lack of nourishment, and a few of the girls complained about being starving as well. All the same, there was nothing we could do about that for the moment, so I focused on ensuring the males hadn’t been injured too badly by the acid rain as Silas and the others began organizing the group to descend below groun

Hera asked as well, with a toothy grin to at least hide her embarrassment. "Go to the Campus bulletin, find your name there," Darlene answered. "Okay." "Thank you," Cyril said on behalf of his friend before they both left the booth and followed the instructions of the older female. From the area of the booths, it's nothing but a 5-minute walk and because they wanted to just kill time, they took their time to get there. And Hera, being the loud friend, always has a lot of topics to talk about. "Hey, Cy."

My depression lifted a little, and I was even able to lose some weight. Like all things that go up in this world, eventually they come crashing back to the ground. Donavon was soon making excuses to stay with his Aunt in the town that he was attending university. He started spending money but could not tell me what it was for. Far too quickly I felt like a single mother. He would sometimes go a whole week before tearing up in the driveway on his motorcycle.

"Katie!" A loud voice enter my system before I felt that I fall on the ground, but the ground is soft, my body fall also on a body. "N-Nicko?" I was slowly finding my self because of the noise that enter my system few minutes ago. "If you have problems solve it on your own. DO.NOT.MAKE.ME.A.CRIMINAL!" The man on the van said and left us on the street. "What's wrong, Katie?" He asked and helped me to stand up.