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Chapter Six: What He Carried
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Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Twelve: Cleared
POV: NathanThe door opens and I don't move.Kai stands there, keys still in his hand, looking at the bottles lined up along the counter like I built something out of them.He picks one up and turns it over before setting it back down. "How many is that?""Lost count.""When did you sleep last?"I shrug, and he watches me do it, waiting for something more that isn't coming."Eaten anything today?" He finds his way through the bottles and walks towards me."Toast.""That's not a meal, Nathan." He pulls out the chair across from me and sits down.For a while neither of us says anything, because there's nothing left worth saying that hasn't already been said twice."Get up," he says finally."Why?"Kai reaches for the bottle nearest my elbow.Before he can take it, my hand closes around the neck. We stay like that for a second.Then he lets go."You're starting to scare me."I look at him and he doesn't look away, and it's that more than anything that gets under my skin.He's not wrong,
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Eleven: The Version She Kept
POV: Haley"Haley?"I nod, and she sits down across from me, careful, like she already knows this isn't going to be easy for either of us."You wanted to talk.""I wanted to see your face when you said it again."She folds her hands on the table the same way she did in the video, and I hate that I recognize the gesture now, that I've watched it enough times to know it on sight."Say what again?""That he did that to you.""I'm not going to perform it for you." Nothing in her wavers."I'm not asking you to perform anything. I'm asking you to look at me and tell me it's true.""It is true." Her eyes meet mine and stay there.Neither of us says anything for a second.I wrap both hands around the cup in front of me, the one I ordered and haven't touched, just to give them somewhere to be."He doesn't remember it," I say."Convenient for him.""He was drunk." The words barely make it past my lips."So was I, a little. Doesn't change what happened after."I keep turning the cup between my h
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Ten: The Version I Don't Know
POV: HaleyAvriel gets to me before anyone else does."Eyes on me. Not them." She steps between me and the rest of the field like a wall, one hand closing around my wrist. "We're walking. Now."People are still looking. Every head turned, phones still lit up, nobody bothering to look away anymore."Don't look at your phone," Avriel says."I need to see it.""You need to get off this field first."She doesn't let go of my wrist until we're past the gate, and even then her hand stays close, like she's ready to grab me again if I try to turn back.---Nathan catches up in the parking lot, breathing hard, his face stripped of anything I recognize."Haley.""Not now," Avriel says."I need to talk to her."Avriel doesn't move. "She'll talk to you when she's ready."He looks at me, waiting for me to override her.I don't, because I can still hear it. "My name is Miranda" keeps looping in my head, and I don't trust my own mouth not to ask him something I can't take back—not here, not with hal
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Nine: Fault Line
POV: Haley"So you're really not going to tell me."Avriel is doing her eyeliner with one knee up on the bathroom counter."There's nothing to tell.""You showed up at my door at midnight, slept through my alarm twice, and now you're in my bathroom borrowing my moisturizer acting like everything is completely normal.""I needed company.""From me. At midnight." She caps the liner and finally looks at me through the mirror. "And nothing happened.""Nothing happened."She turns around and leans against the sink."Haley.""Avriel."She holds the look for a long moment. Then she picks up her bag from the floor."Fine," she says. "But I want it on record that I know you're lying and I'm choosing to be patient about it.""Noted.""I'm very patient.""You're the least patient person I know, and we're going to be late.""We're always late. It builds character," she says, opening the bathroom door.---The lecture room is noisy when we get there, that particular sound of twenty people talking
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Eight: The Wrong Kind of Watching
POV: Haley"What is this?"He doesn't wait for an answer. His voice fills the room the way his presence does.Kai gets to his feet fast, the way people do when they're startled out of sleep by the last person they want to look vulnerable in front of. A man in a suit stands in the middle of the living room staring at the two of us. I hadn't even known anyone else was inside until the sound of his voice pulled me out of sleep.Kai had been asleep in the small chair beside the couch. I'd been on the couch. Nothing happened. He'd talked to me until I stopped crying, told me there were options, that nothing was decided yet, that I wasn't as out of choices as I felt. I'd fallen asleep somewhere in the middle of it.That is what the man walked into.It doesn't matter."I called you four times last night. Four times, Kai.""I had my phone off.""I can see why." His father's eyes move to me, then back to Kai. "This is where you were. Sleeping. With a girl.""That's not—""Do you know what time
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Seven: What She Carried Back
POV: Haley "You had a visitor this morning."The nurse says it while unhooking the monitor from my finger."Around six. Before the shift change. She didn't want to wake you."I sit up straighter. "Who?""She didn't leave a name." She pulls the IV line free and presses a cotton ball to the inside of my elbow. "Older woman. Dark hair. She just stood at the door for a while, then left."I don't say anything."You okay?""Fine."She writes something on her clipboard and walks out.I stare at the door she just went through.Dark hair. Stood at the door. Didn't leave a name.I know exactly one person who would do that.---Nathan arrives at nine with a change of clothes in a bag and sits on the edge of the bed while I change behind the curtain."Ready to go home?" he asks."I've been ready since yesterday.""Okay, the doctor wants to go over discharge notes first."I pull the curtain back. He looks at me, then at the bag, then back at me."You look better," he says."I look exactly the sam
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