SONG OF THE FIREFLIES (February 4, 2014; Forever E-Book; $3.99)
THE TRUTH WILL SET THEM FREE
Brayelle Bates has always been a force of nature. Even as a child,
Bray's wild and carefree spirit intimidated everyone around her. The
only person who's ever truly understood her is her best friend, Elias
Kline. Though every fiber of her being wants to
stay with Elias forever, Bray can't bear the thought of him discovering
her agonizing history. She's done everything she can to keep him at
arm's length, including moving away. But their undying bond was too
strong a pull to deny, and Bray couldn't survive
without him. Now she's back home with Elias, and things have never felt
more right-until one night changes everything.
Elias vowed never to be separated from Bray again. So when she decides
to flee in a desperate attempt to escape her fate, Elias knows he must
go with her. As the two try to make the most of their circumstance,
taking up with a reckless group of new friends,
Elias soon realizes there's a darkness driving Bray he can't ignore.
Now in order to save her, he'll have to convince Bray to accept the
consequences of their reality-even if it means losing her.
Thunder rumbled in the sky and the thick, dark clouds lit up in the
distance, revealing what the tops of the trees looked like painted
against the black backdrop that had shrouded them. The crawling branches
that reached upward along the infinite dark looked ominous as the flash
of light faded.
I felt a drop of rain. And then another.
“So much for a quiet walk together,” Bray said.
And
just then, the sky opened up and it began to pour. Bray shrieked and
tried to cover herself unsuccessfully with her arms and then the
screaming turned into laughter. We were both drenched in under five
seconds. The rain pounded down so fast and so hard that we had to shout
over the noise to hear each other; each drop like a million nails being
thrust into the dirt on the baseball field.
“It’s a long walk back!” I said.
Bray
started spinning like a ballerina in the middle of the field. She
laughed and raised her arms above her and turned her face upward toward
the sky and just let the rain wash over her. She opened her mouth and
spun around and around. I watched her for a moment, mesmerized by her
innocence. I saw that little girl I met so long ago, running with me
through that pasture without a worry in the world. Just seeing her like
that, it made me smile, but deep down it also crushed me. I knew that
she would never be that innocent again, that our life together would
never be as carefree as it was when we were children.
“Dance with me!” she shouted.
“What?”
“Dance with me!”
I had heard her right the first time. I just didn’t understand why here, why now.
“There’s no music!” I said over the rain.
She grabbed my hand. “You don’t hear that?!” she said, motioning to the patter of rain and thunder around us.
She
started spinning around me and I stood in the same spot following her
until she grabbed both of my hands and pulled on them. Next thing I
knew, we were spinning together, holding each other’s hands tightly and
distributing equal weight on our arms. At first, I felt like an idiot
and hoped Tate wasn’t spying, or worse, Caleb. But I was quickly lost in
Bray’s laughter and her smile and her beautiful blue eyes. The thunder
got louder, the lightning more intense. I was beginning to worry about
us being out in the open like this, in the center of a baseball field
just asking to be struck down by the finger of God. But soon, I didn’t
care. We were those two innocent children again, living free and loving
life. And not even lightning could ruin this moment. It wouldn’t dare.
We
stopped spinning, and I twirled her around by her hands as I stood in
place, and then I dipped her. Leaning over her body, I pressed my wet
lips between her breasts as her white shirt was weighted down by the endless rain.
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About the author:
J.A. Redmerski, New York Times, USA Today and Wall
Street Journal bestselling
author lives in North Little Rock, Arkansas with her three children,
two cats and a Maltese. She is a lover of television and books that push
boundaries and is a huge fan of AMC's The
Walking Dead.
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