Novels by Cassandre Janvier

POV NoralynWhen I go back to school the next day I give myself the mission to find Rio and have that serious conversation with him. But I don't see him the hallways and today I don't have in common classes with him.At lunch I find Kline under that tree where he loves to sit and I ask him if he's seen Rio but he shakes his head."I haven't seen him since last night. He doesn't pick up his phone either." He shrugs before handing out a sandwich to me. "I guess he needs time to be on his own."I take the sandwich and sit next to Kline to start eating. My curiosity gets the best of me and I can't help asking. "Do you know if something had happened between him and that guy he was fighting with."Kline shakes his head. "I have no idea. You know, Rio and I might be friends but he's someone who prefers keeping things to himself especially the heavy stuff. He doesn't open up easily."He said this with sadness in his voice and I realize h

POV NoralynIt takes three people to get Rio off the dude who was trying to intimidate me that night I went to see Kline's skateboard show.They take him far from the scene and I see Kline talking to him in the distance probably trying to make him calm down.Everything happenned so fast that I don't even know what caused it. One second Jade and I were standing next to each other close to my bike she was wishing me good luck after they announced my name as the other person who was going to race and then the next thing I know people start cheering loudly as they forme a circle around two guys fighting...I could only stand there and watch."Tyron must have done something to him," Jade says. "Rio isn't the type to get into fights."I don't say anything and continue to watch Rio and Kline talking. From that distance I can't guess what they're talking about but it seems pretty obvious that Rio isn't lik

POV RioThe thing about racing in the mountains of this town is that it always makes you feel like you might die with every turn that you take. The wind is icy this late into the night and the headlights of my bike is the only thing piercing through the darkness. There are shadows all around me like the shadows playing hide and seek in my mind.The rare moments of existence during which I truly feel alive are either when I'm taking a blow on the arena or when I'm driving my bike as fast as I can on an empty road like this one. For a moment I can pretend that I'm racing toward my freedom, that if I drive as fast as I can I'll be able to escape this life and the dark hole inside my chest. Or maybe I'll just take a bad turn and crash but that still would be a good thing because if there is an afterlife, I'm pretty sure that I'll spend it with C

POV Noralyn "Oh God, I think I'm in love!" Jade reaches out her hand to touch the screen of my laptop. Her fingers caress the frozen image of the actor on the screen. We're in my bedroom watching my favorite TV show, Supernatural. Jade has apparently fallen for Dean Winchester, one of the male lead actors of the show. "I'm telling you girl, I'm in love!" She makes fawning noises and I can't help but laugh. "Okay, Mrs Winchester stop making out with my laptop please." I laugh as I take her by the arms when she starts kissing the screen. "Who's your favorite character in Supernatural?" She asks while picking up

POV RioThe two bodyguards standing in front of Davis's office don't say anything to me when I approach the door and knock. I don't wait for him to tell me to come in and simply go inside. He's talking on the phone when I come inside and gestures with his fingers for me to wait one minute. I sit in front of his desk and patiently wait. I know very well that nothing about my expression indicates that I've come here to have a friendly conversation and Davis must be able to see it on my face.When he finally hangs up the phone he looks at me with such a fake smile that I want to puke. "Rio my man! Glad you came back safe and sound."

POV NoralynWhen I wake up my heart is beating wildly inside my chest and I'm all sweaty. There's a strange noise coming from outside, like a repeated pounding and for a moment I think that I'm hallucinating or that it's simply the sound of my beating heart that has been magnified in my panic, until I realize that in fact there's someone knocking at my door.I stand like a robot, still not totally woken up from the nightmare I just had and open the door. Rio is standing in front of me, a strange expression on his face and I cannot for the life of me figure out what he's doing at my house at 3AM. Suddenly I remember that we're at a motel."You were screaming," Rio says and his eyes look behind me as if he's searching for something inside the room."It's nothing, I just had a nightmare."I cross my arms in front of me and lower my head because I start feeling naked that he's able to see how terrified