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“Peace,” I echo, wondering if he knows what that means. I’m not sure I even know.
“Think about it,” Cormac says. “For now, please excuse me.”
“Need a trip to the little boys’ room?” I ask.
“I have missed your wit.” He chuckles and opens the door.
She’s standing in the hall, waiting, her arms crossed protectively against her small chest. She bites her lip when she sees me, her eyes finding the floor rather than facing me. My fingers flex against the gages that imprison them.
“This is what you call being a man of your word?” I roar as he takes Amie’s arm.
“I said she could go,” Cormac says, “but she chose to stay.”
“You promised.” My words are as weak as the final thread holding together a seam.
“You can’t have it both ways,” he says. Amie won’t meet my eyes. “You can’t claim your own free will and strip someone else of it.”
“You do it all the time,” I point out. I walk as calmly as I can toward the door.
Amie steps behind Cormac and my heart sinks.
“Ames,” I say softly. “You have a choice. You always will. But this life is the wrong one.”
“I made my choice,” she says.
I swallow back the words that I want to unleash. It’s the wrong choice.
“I’ll be here if you change your mind,” I offer instead.
“I won’t.” Her tone is set. Determined. “You’re a freak.”
Cormac’s black eyes meet mine as she turns to him. He pats her shoulder and leads her away, and I watch as my sister chooses the monster of my nightmares.
Outside the window, the Interface grows thicker. Light flashes and sizzles across the pane as the sky shifts to blinding white. On the other side lies a darkness I can finally face and a destiny I will control even as the web consumes me, taking me back to the Coventry.
