Fallen Into Hell: Fallen: Book 2, Layna Snow [the mitten read aloud .TXT] 📗

died. Sophie mom’s mother was the most influential person in her life. She raised Sophie to be a good girl, someone who could look in the mirror and be proud of herself.

Her Abuela always said that their parents could have done a better job with Brooke. Actually, she said something stronger, but Soph couldn’t repeat mean things about her sister. No matter what Brooklyn did, they were still family.

Even if they weren’t close.

Sophie hadn’t been close to anyone since the night Annie was hurt.

But with her awake, I’ll have her again.

My Abuela moved to Canada after she had my mom. She was a single mother and my mom wasn’t too happy about that. She is big on family values now. Both my parents are. They moved to Barrie to be closer to my sister after the accident. They still kept their home in Cold Wood, and Soph lived there and took care of it. Brooke moved out as soon as possible.

But now, they’d probably be coming back. She’d have to find a new place to live. There was no way that she could live under her parents’ thumb again. She couldn’t be constantly measured to see if she was good enough. Holy enough.

And if they ever learned what had happened here, she was sure that they’d have an exorcism performed on her before refusing to talk to her ever again.

What she was doing here wasn’t right, wasn’t natural. Not only was she engaging in premarital sex, but with two guys, in Hell.

Not that Sophie felt that there was anything wrong with having sex with men that you loved.

Love?

Oh, Mary mother of God!

She had been fighting it for the whole week. She had tried to shut herself down, listing all the horrible things that Adrian has said to her.

But it hadn’t worked.

Every time Thane held her, she had been pulled farther under his spell. Every time Adrian teased her, she’d fallen. Their soft looks and gentle hands. Their groans as they gave her the most pleasure that she had ever known. It had all led to this moment. And she had no idea what to do with the thought.

“Won’t they worry about you?” Adrian asked, unaware of the thoughts going through her head.

It wasn’t like she could just tell them that she loved them!

They’d scoff at her, they’d be alarmed. They’d probably be horrified. The men let her stay here for sex, and wild kinkiness, not for her to grow attached to them.

They didn’t want a clingy woman. Heck, her naiveté was the problem. And it was her problem, not theirs.

No wonder they usually dealt with experienced women. Experienced women wouldn’t let themselves fall for men who only wanted casual.

But she loved them!

And now she needed to talk to them like everything was perfectly fine? As if her heart wasn’t full and empty at the same time. As if she didn’t love two men who could never love her back.

It was way too much.

“Hot-dude to Phie? Are you with us? You look a little panicked. What’s up, buttercup? Are you nervous that you’ve been gone so long?”

Long?

Sophie struggled to shake off her own emotional distress, trying to push it back and think about something else, but it overshadowed everything. How could a word do this?

But this seemed important. There was something in her brain that was pushing her to pay attention. Something that seemed off.

“Are you nervous that you’ve been gone so long?”

Why did they think she’d been gone a while? She’d been here for a few days. Surely her parents wouldn’t even notice. Especially not with Annie waking up.

They only contact me ever few weeks to see how I am. One week is nothing. They might want to tell me about Annie, though. In fact, she should be up there to see if her sister was alright.

She needed to be there for Annie.

She shouldn’t have stayed here with these guys. As much as she enjoyed her time. As much as she dreaded leaving them behind. She knew that she needed to be there for the long road to full recovery.

Especially since they will never return your feelings.

Thane didn’t even have feelings. Not that he told her why.

She felt herself torn by her decision. She wanted to be both places. She’d put off her responsibilities for one wonderful week.

And look at the trouble you got into. Falling in love with two people! How is that possible? But it was.

She loved different things about them. It happened separately but it happened. And now she had to choose to either stay with men who were bound to break her heart over and over again, or go and help her sister recover.

“A week? No, hot-stuff. It might have only been a week for us, but it’s been months up there. Time is weird that way. Hell does not work the same as Earth. It’s all messed up.”

Months?

Months? Oh shoot!

 If she’d been gone so long, her family would definitely be worried. If that was true then Annie would be up walking.

Annie would think that her own twin abandoned her!

Oh gosh! Had she known that, she wouldn’t have stayed!

She would have left as soon as she talked to the Devil.

But she hadn’t! She let herself get sucked in by them. She let them take over everything. She thought a few days were nothing, but a few months was a long time!

It was time to leave! It didn’t matter that her heart hurt, or that she yearned to be with them longer. It didn’t matter that she couldn’t see herself living one day of her life without them, and she couldn’t see a good future with them either.

If they loved her, it’d be different.

Would it? Are they more important than