The Half Of It: A Memoir Novels & Stories

Consider it done. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To escape the horrors crawling out of the crevices of my memories involving this monster. But my legs don’t work right, and my throat has closed off so tight I can barely remember how to breathe through it. I forget the conversation I was half-listening to. I forget the half-drunk glass of wine sweating on the table in front of me. I forget—for a fraction of a minute—the damned situation I was in with Hale Holt. I forget everything. Except him.

It was faint and no more than just a silhouette but I knew this was the memory I had been trying to grab. I imagined myself moving toward the figure in the house I had created in my mind. My movements were sluggish, as if I was being weighed down by some invisible force. Everything around me was glowing with a deep crimson red as I fought harder and harder to reach the figure that was just beyond me. Growing tired and frustrated I threw my hands out in anger. I watched as a rush of blue electricity flowed from my hands and the fog began to clear. The red haze had disappeared as quickly as it had taken over. I was finally able to make out the figure in front of me, the memory I had been tryin

I creased my brows as if it took me some effort to recall. "Oh…" I suddenly gasped in realization, deliberately letting myself trail off before flashing an innocent smile. "So that was you—I'm so sorry, but like you said, it happened twenty years ago. It was so long ago that I've forgotten it. See, as I've accomplished so much important research work day after day, who has time to remember such… trivialities?"

Not calculating, not protecting anyone, not trying to keep two separate truths from colliding. Both truths were in the same room. Both of them were looking at me. "I have been half a person for a year," I said. "I am done being half a person." Nate looked at me with the expression he kept for moments he did not have words for. Levi looked at me like he had been waiting for exactly this since the first night.

November dark arrives early and stays. "I'm in it," she says. "Yes." "You write about me." "You're the center of it," I say. "That's what the thing is about." This is true. The memoir begins with me—with my mother, with the years of moving, with the recruitment and the training and the careful construction of a self that could go anywhere and owe nothing. But it pivots to Celeste. It pivots to the eleven weeks in the penthouse and the building and the city, to the specific quality of her attention and the way it changed the ground I was standing on.

“Sounds sensible, sis. It must be hard for you, though. "That's right." I resisted the urge to drink more wine. “Jenna, you said it's important. be independent, right? And I think now I am. Everything I ever wanted, before this happened, I used to be half an M&M, but I'm not anymore. I'm this new Merilee and... I'm confused. “Poor Merilee, I bet she is… You two kept those two halves of M&M's for For a long time, it's as if neither of them has a separate existence. And this is not good.

Her face was flushed, clearly in the throes of her heat. Lucas gently stroked her forehead, his eyes full of concern. The caption read: "My Alpha dropped everything to take care of me, leaving his runaway Omega behind while I'm sick. This is what true love is—choosing the one who really needs you." Below it, in smaller text: "Certain half-bloods should stop dreaming." I watched the video, my heart completely still. I almost wanted to laugh. Because this scene was all too familiar. My first heat, three years ago.

There was no way to know. A bugle sounded, a flight of six fighters roared overhead, and the troops marched on. * * * The safe house was buried in south Los Angeles. It belonged to a sympathizer who worked for the government. Water poured into the tub, and the bathroom filled with steam. It billowed, eased toward the window, and shivered as it passed through the opening. Kenny had changed during the recent weeks and months. The acne scarred face was the same, but he was stronger, more self confident. And why not? He had founded the Radio Free Earth, hasn't he?

I just wanted to give him an opportunity to earn some money to support himself and his family. I picked my phone and bag up and headed to the elevator. I pressed the bottom floor and waited. Upon getting there, I got outside and headed towards the lobby to wait up for Laila. It didn’t take long for ly showed up a few minutes after and we headed towards the office exit. We find Paul already waiting for us and without wasting much time we head towards a restaurant close by the office. Despite being a famous person in the business world I always kept it simple and humble as I never forgot where I had come from. I loved meals made a Dom’s restaurant which ran way back since my high school days.