Tuesday Tease - Never Let You Go
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I'm doing a crazy different Tuesday Tease today, since release day is on THURSDAY!!!!
I thought I'd have a little fun.
I asked my beauiful #Fierce5 pal, Sarah Ashley Jones, to pick us any three words. Now Sarah hasn't read Never Let You Go yet, so this was totally random on her part.
The word LOVE in all of its forms (love, loved, loevely) is found 73 times. Including:
“It’s
alright. I love you, Skye. I’ve always loved you…I’m-”
The word RUN in all of its forms is found 45 times. Including:
I deciphered the noise as footsteps, a lot
of them, and they were running my way.
The terror in the piercing scream was familiar,
and all at once I became aware that the sound came from me.
Also, in case you were wondering, the entire story is roughly 91,780 words
And now for your totally random page tease brought to you by #Fierce5 member, Starla Huchton's, awesome number picking...
Immediately my skin began to crawl. Someone
had been there while I was away. I could sense it.
“Skye!” demanded Nickoli when he reached
the open doorway. “What the hell was that downstairs? I thought we agreed you
would act amenable to everything going on and let me handle things?” He sounded
as breathless as I felt.
I faced him reluctantly. “Someone was in
here.”
“I cannot help you find the truth if you do
not…wait - what?” he asked; his face registering what I’d said. He rushed
forward as I repeated, “Someone was in here.”
“I didn’t leave the window open. In fact, I
haven’t opened it since the night I was attacked. I can feel it…Semvon, or
something else magical, was here.”
He nudged me aside to take a peek out into
the inner ward below. He shook his head and pulled me away from the opening;
closing the shutters tightly as we went.
“Did you look out?” Nickoli asked, and then
knelt and checked under the bed. I followed suit. I scanned the room; checking
behind the bathing screen and floor-to-ceiling tapestry. Nickoli went so far as
to check the cabinet with my dresses.
“There is no one here. Come with me to my
room and we will check it, too.”
We thoroughly examined his chamber, then
decided to move on to Manda’s and knocked on her door. She was already dressed
for bed and denied hearing anything, but Nickoli swept her room ‘just in case’.
“Where is Pate?”
“He has not arrived yet, Nickoli. He should
be here soon.”
“Skye, stay here while I go gather extra
guards for the floor,” he ordered as he stalked off; yelling over his shoulder,
“And secure the door!”
Manda took my arm and ushered me towards
her table. “What is this all about?”
See you Thursday!!!