Residue (38 page)

Our families gave us time, a testament to their understanding of what this was going to do to us.

Then someone cleared their throat and we painfully pulled away. Our feet moved with the weight of cement blocks toward them, our hands releasing only at the very last possible moment. My heart wrenched with each step as they carried me away from Jameson, toward beginning the illusion that he and I were strangers.

Only then did I see the two figures standing hidden in the shadows below the trees.

I recognized them instantly.

The Vires had arrived.

Brief Biography

Laury Falter is the author of the bestselling Guardian Trilogy. She lives with her husband and two stray dogs in Las Vegas. She has been secretly writing for most of her life and only released her first novel after the insistence of her sister, Babs.