Linked (Gilded Blood #3)

by Rachel Rener

While my stomach turned itself inside out and my lungs completely emptied themselves of oxygen, my brain took that opportunity to remind me that, upon opening my imminent missing person’s case, the last thing the authorities would find on my laptop’s browsing history was the diligent search for a high-powered vibrator I’d conducted the week before last. God, if you’re there, I fervently prayed, please let me make it back home to clear my cache!

It would seem Sol’s claim made no distinction between gender – a very progressive, excessively-thorough curse, indeed.

myself being tossed around like a rag doll in the middle of an unruly pit of foul body odor and stale beer, it occurred to me that my life choices leading up to that moment had not been great.