With a flash of teeth, Savannah pushed her fingers roughly into his hair. She pulled his head down toward hers, his lips down toward hers.No hesitation.
She’d always been incapable of hesitation.
Rohan kissed her, knowing better than to hope it meant anything. He knew better than to hope, period.
But then, he’d known better from the start.
“There will,” Savannah said, her lips moving against his in a way that let him—madehim—feel her everywhere, “be rules.”
There would be rules—and the two of them would break them.
Again.
And again.
And again.
“I don’t know how to be anything but a magnificent bastard,” Rohan warned her. “I don’t know how to live in this world. I don’t know how to be normal.”
“What ever gave you the idea,” Savannah murmured, “that I wantnormal?”
Her lips made their way to Rohan’s neck, and he drove his hands into her hair. His shirt came off, and her nails came out, and he smiled.
“What’s the board, Savannah?”
Ice-blue eyes locked on to his. “The world.”
The world and the whole damn sky.“Has anyone ever offered,” Rohan murmured into her, “to give you the world?”
Chapter 100
GIGI
I know you’re out there.” Gigi stared out into the night, the way she had so many times over the past year and a half. And some of those times, Slate had been there.
Why couldn’t he be there now?
“I know you’re out there.” This was Gigi’s fifth straight night doing the exact same thing. Even though no one else was optimistic. Even though Jameson had confirmed that Slate had made it in, that he’d been captured and, the last time Jameson had seen him, chained up.
Even though no one had seen or heard from Mattias Slater since.
“I know you’re out there.” Gigi had always been able tobelieve. What harm did it do to believe, even if you were wrong?
But it had been seven days since Vantage had crumbled. The rescue crews had given way to crews of a different sort. If Gigi had thought flying to Scotland and throwingherselfat the problem would have made a whit of difference, she would have done it in a heartbeat, but what good could she have possibly done there?
She only would have gotten in the way.
You’re a force, that note had said,and I’ll be fine. I always, never am.
Gigi had gone into the Grandest Game looking for something, looking to prove herself, only to end up, after everything, right back at home, right back in her room, unable to move on, unable todo anything.
Except one thing. As she stared out into the night, she realized there was one thing shecoulddo—not for Slate, not for Toby, who was never coming back, not for Eve, not for anyone who’d died at Vantageorsurvived there.
There was one thing that Gigi could do about THE SECRET.
You decide, Savannah had told her.Not me.
And now, Gigi had. It would take some doing, but she was a force.
