Fractured
“HIS eyes grew wide as he registered the look on my face. “What’s wrong, Lela?” The lights dimmed and thunderous music filled the theater as the previews started. I leaned forward and inhaled, and he stayed still for me, his expression frozen in a lopsided smile. But I’d been with him all evening, and the scent wasn’t coming from him. Which meant it was someone else inside this theater, maybe many someone elses. My fingers drifted toward my waist, where I kept my knife. Shit. I couldn’t take it ...to school with me, and I hadn’t gone home before the baseball game. I bowed my head, near enough that his hair brushed my cheek, and whispered in his ear, “Do you recognize that smell?”Ian’s eyes strayed to the screen, but he wasn’t watching. He inhaled deeply, and then every line of his body went tense. He nodded, like I thought he might. It would have been how Aden smelled the night he became a Mazikin. As the previews played on, I looked around the theater. I couldn’t see very well, but I could still make out a few of our classmates staring at us from a few rows back.MoreLess
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