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I close my eyes and rest my head against the window shade, feeling a single tear slip down my face. I don’t have the energy to wipe it away, so I let it fall and wish that I could just open my eyes and wake up in my bed back at the Boudreaux’s family home. But it was never my bed. It was his, the whole time.
I feel someone slide into the seat next to me, and for one wild second, I entertain the idea that Remy decided he can’t let me go, that this was a mistake, that he’s going to drag me off this flight whether I want him to or not. But the air doesn’t smell like him, and my skin doesn’t prickle with awareness as it usually does when he’s near, like the electric charge between us just flares up on its own.
When I open my eyes, there’s a moment of confusion as I try to place the face of the man that’s staring at me.
And then it comes back to me all at once—the wake, the man who watched me so strangely.
The senator.
He grins when recognition floods me, hand in hand with cold terror at what that means.
There’s no way this is a coincidence. He confirms as much when he cocks his head, looking at me from a new angle. There’s something in his gaze I can’t name, but it makes my stomach squirm. My chest feels heavy, the panic making everything sharp and cruel. “You.” I say, because it’s all that my dry mouth will allow to slip out.
He only laughs, the grin deepening on one side of his face. “Looks like I’ve finally got you alone.”
