6 Works by jackiesarch
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He gets like this sometimes: quiet, brooding, despondent. They don’t talk a lot about the what happened before the Collapse — neither she nor Jacob have very pleasant memories of that time — but Rook knows there are things he feels guilty about. Hurting her, she knows, is one of them; spending more time hunting her down than loving her is another. He won’t apologize for the things he did to keep his brothers safe, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t agonize over them when the nights get too quiet.
He doesn’t understand why she stays. He doesn’t understand why she wants him. It’s been almost five years, and Rook’s learned there’s not much she can do to silence the thoughts that run rampant in his mind.
There’s no point trying to force him to change. All she knows how to do is love him through it.
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If she bites her lip any harder, Rook is going to put her teeth straight through it. As it is, her incisors are digging a cut so deep that she can taste the familiar tang of blood flooding her mouth.
Jacob laughs at her. He thinks it’s funny, the asshole, listening to her struggle to keep her mouth shut as he dips his fingers between her legs. She thinks they’ll have to have a talk someday about how much he enjoys embarrassing her every chance he gets.
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The first time she meets John Seed, Rook has lived in Hope County for all of three weeks. She’s just transferred over from Missoula, has left the big city behind for open fields of Holland Valley, the sloping peaks of the Whitetail Mountains, and the twists and turns of the Henbane River.
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Jacob nudges her awake early on a Sunday morning, long before the bunker is echoing with the sounds of daily life, long before anyone in their right mind should be awake.
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Rook tells him she’s pregnant, and he loses his goddamn mind.
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She wakes to feather-light touch on the edge of her bottom lip, a sweep of sensation from the right corner of her mouth to the left. Sleep-drunk, Rook has to fight back a smile. The inside of her cheek pinches where she bites it between her teeth and tries to keep still.