Then She Was Gone Book Summary Novels & Stories

The fact that I could leave without a sound… was partly thanks to him. Melissa, who had been quietly watching, suddenly let out a small laugh at their panicked expressions. "I bet she's just playing hard to get. There's no way she'd give up this kind of life. While you're all worrying about her, she's probably already sneaked off to Nebula City for the competition." Charles immediately had someone check my flight information, and they found records of a 3:00 pm flight to Nebula City. "She really went to Nebula City."

The city wasn't hiding evidence of her. It had simply started moving past her already. That realization settled into my chest slower than a blade, and hurt worse.But whatever this place was, it hadn't been stuck in time around her presence, unlike everything else in the world, which froze up the moment something significant occurred in it. No; it had moved on. Continued to live. Continued to breathe. She was gone. Not abducted. Gone the way people can just disappear when they put one foot in front of the other and kept moving.

April's POV I hacked into Alex's Internet and I continued to do my report. Time passed with me lost in writing the report. My stomach roaring made me realise I was very hungry. I stood and walked to the kitchen hoping to find something to eat, anything. It was at night already and I had completely forgotten about dinner but it was normal for me to forget to eat. I did not think Alex would be okay with me getting in his kitchen to eat something because apparently he did not like 'sharing' but I was hungry. He was so ridiculous.

"Until…' Then she was gone." Not gone the way people disappear into crowds — shoulder-turned, heads-down, absorbed by motion. Gone the way a flame goes out. Between one blink and the next, she simply was not there. The space where she had stood held nothing but platform grime and a discarded ticket stub and the fading warmth of afternoon light. Kai's hand stayed raised for several seconds more, fingers spread, reaching for something the world had already taken back. * * *

If she failed, she’d be another body added to the pile of those who underestimated me. An hour later, I was sitting in my office, waiting for Kael’s report, when the door burst open. My instincts kicked in immediately, and my hand went to the knife on my desk. Kael stood in the doorway, his face pale and his usual composure shaken. “What is it?” I demanded, rising to my feet. “It’s her.” He said, his voice tight. “She’s gone.” My blood ran cold. “What do you mean, gone?” “She disappeared.” Kael said. “We had her under surveillance, but she slipped away before we even made it to the car.”

Just me, naked, sheets damp beneath me, thighs sticky, pussy still tender and swollen, a faint ache in my ass, the unmistakable feeling of being thoroughly, deeply used. I sat up slowly. Looked around. The book was gone from my desk. No trace of him. I touched between my legs — fingers came away slick with what was definitely not just my own wetness. Thick. Warm. Still leaking slowly out of me. I stared at my fingers. Then at the empty room. He was gone. No goodbye. No promise to return. Just… gone. A hollow ache settled in my chest, deeper than the physical soreness between my legs.

I suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction. Then, the girl's mother looked around. When she found that no one was around, she picked up the little girl and ran. As she drew her distance away from me, I heard her telling the girl not to do such dangerous things again. She never gave me a single glance. I lay on the ground, feeling the life drain away from my body. Several people passed by. They shook their heads and sighed. I heard the clicking of camera shutters, but no one called the ambulance.

But as I made my way upstairs, my phone vibrated. A mindlink. I groaned. “What is it, Zane?” I snapped. “Um… Alpha, we have a problem.” I stilled. “What kind of problem?” Zane hesitated. “It’s—uh—so…” “Get to it, Zane! I don’t have all day.” A pause. Then, finally— “She’s gone,” he muttered. A cold chill crept down my spine. “What do you mean gone? Who’s gone?”

It happened too quickly and she faded into the book. The book fell to the ground and vanished.

"This money is enough to keep the Keller family fed and clothed for a lifetime. Consider it compensation for breaking the engagement. I'm leaving." With that, she ran off without looking back, giving Preston no chance to stop her. Instinctively, he shouted her name, hoping she would change her mind. Rowena kept moving; she never once looked back at him. … The outskirts of the city were in chaos. Police officers and forensic teams were conducting investigations at the scene. Rowena's limbs went weak as a suffocating pain wrapped around her entire body. No matter how hard she searched, she could not find that familiar figure.