Surrendering Series Box Set - Page 307
That night at dinner, Lucah asked me if I’d gotten the letters from Ryder.
“Yeah, they finally got here. One for each day,” I said.
“He told me he was going to do that,” Lucah said.
Rory sighed. “That’s so romantic. It’s like something from a movie,” she said.
“It kind of is. Like Ryan Gosling in The Notebook. He wrote her 365 letters and her bitch of a mother kept them from her?” I said.
“Oh yeah! I love that movie, but it always makes me cry,” she said.
“Are we talking about that notebook movie?” Lucah asked. We both nodded.
“Okay, question. Did you cry when you watched it?” I asked him. He looked at Rory, and she grinned at him.
“Yeah, he did. I made him watch it,” she said.
“That was not a very nice thing to do, Miss Clarke,” he said.
“True. But now I know you’re not soulless.”
I shook my head. “He still doesn’t have a soul. Gingers are soulless. Didn’t you know that?”
Lucah pretended to be mad at me, but I knew he liked it. Besides, I couldn’t really throw stones now that I was in love with his brother.
“Souls are overrated,” Lucah said.
“I’m pretty sure vampires don’t have souls, and they’re pretty sexy, in my opinion,” Rory said.
“So what about a ginger vampire? Are they double soulless?” I asked.
God, I missed Ryder. I would have loved to get his take on soulless vampires.
“He’s going to get his first phone call in a few days,” Lucah said. “Anything you want me to tell him? I can’t let you talk to him because they monitor the calls and they’ll cut him off if anyone but me talks to him. That place is really strict.”
Guess they had to be.
I thought for a second. I could have Lucah tell Ryder that I loved him back, but I didn’t want someone else telling him. I wanted to do it myself.
“Just ask him to give me his opinion on ginger vampires in his next letter.”
Lucah raised an eyebrow and looked so much like Ryder it was crazy.
“Really? That’s it?”
“That’s it,” I said. “For now.”
Twenty-Six
Every day when I got home from the studio, I knew I had something to look forward to. My letter from Ryder. Some were long, some were short, but I loved them all and wrote responses for each one. It gave me something to do when I was home alone late at night. Sometimes, when my insomnia would kick in, I’d pull them out and read them again, adding little things to the letters I wrote back. Drawings and doodles. Things to make him laugh.
All systems were go for the fashion show, so I told him about that. And I signed each letter, “Love, Sloane.” I figured by the time he read them I would have already told him I loved him. Again.
“I’ve saved all the little notes Lucah ever wrote me,” Rory said as we hung out in her apartment, waiting for Ryder to call Lucah. Even if I couldn’t talk to him, I wanted to be in the room. Maybe even hear his voice, if Lucah could put him on speaker.
“Even the dirty ones?” Lucah asked, looking up from his phone. He seemed almost as anxious as I was to hear from Ryder. I’d shared a few little things from the letters with him, just enough so he knew things were going well. He didn’t ask to see the rest of them, and I really respected that. Lucah was a good guy. Ryder was lucky to have him as a brother.
“Especially the dirty ones,” Rory said, and the phone rang. Lucah fumbled and nearly dropped it before he answered it.
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