Words Instead Of Said Novels & Stories

The first part of his sentence didn’t quite register in my head because he had said fudging. Fudging. I peered at him waiting for him to mutate into an alien glob because no sane human on earth would take that already bad remake of a curse word and make it so much worse. “Did you hear a word I said? I found a pattern.” “You found a pattern?” My back straightened my body gravitating towards him.

I have no words to say. Damned Tribrid.

He said, “Yes…” ***

DAMON'S POV I couldn't sleep, Sophia's words kept echoing in my head. When I threw myself down a flight of stairs and lost everything I thought I wanted. Threw myself. She didn't say fell, she didn't say pushed, she said threw myself. It had to be a slip of the tongue. A mistake in phrasing. People misspoke all the time. But something about the way she'd said it, the way she'd rushed out of the room immediately after, the way her face had gone pale when the words left her mouth.

"Oh, nothing, I just recalled a saying, 'Do not cast your pearls before swine.'" Edward was amused at Ziggy’s quip after quip. 'My son is so different today!' So, he nodded appreciatively and joined the fray. "That's a good saying." Hearing the banter between Edward and Ziggy, Rue almost wanted to vomit blood. Her hands, hidden under the table, suddenly tensed up into a ball, while her stiff smile remained. She knew Ziggy was referring to her when he said 'swine', and Edward echoed the sentiment! She knew all the non-swear words that they used were about her, but she could not react to those. She even had to pretend like she did not understand!

“Words.” “Y-yes.”

I said. “Okay…….it’s,”

*That was the word. *That was exactly the word.*

“There! Much better. How are you feeling?” “Like I’ve been hit by an eighteen wheeler.” I groaned and wiped at my eyes with both my hands. “Can we just stay here for the rest of our lives?” “I think the airport security might have a problem with that.” I could hear the smile in his voice. It was also then that I realized that I had said ‘we’ instead of ‘I’. But I’d already said what I’d said and there were no taking back words once they were out of the mouth.

I said, “ No matter what,"