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His limbs went loose.
He passed out.
“Shit.” My heart smoked with panic. “Neri, what did you do?”
“Doing what you’ve always done for me.” Landing on her knees beside me, she grabbed my arm and threw it over her shoulders. “Stand up. Right now. Get up, Aslan.”
Male voices sounded by the front door as heavy boots entered the house.
Groaning, I shut down all my pain and locked away all my weaknesses.
Using Neri as much as I dared, I tripped to my feet and rode out the heavy waves of nausea.
“Stand still. Don’t fall.” Letting me go, Neri raced to her dresser and grabbed the chair beneath. Wedging it under the door handle of her room, she bolted to her window. “Come on.”
Lurching forward, my bones didn’t work correctly, but I ignored them. I would walk on shattered legs if it meant I survived and somehow figured out a way to fix all of this.
“I’m not leaving you,” I panted as I landed hard against her windowsill.
“You don’t have a choice.”
“Come with me.”
“I’m going to tell them it wasn’t you.”
“I don’t want you doing something you don’t want to do.”
Tears rolled down her cheeks. “It’s my mess, Aslan. I did this. Give me the chance to fix it.”
“But—”
“Go.” She shoved me. “Go now. Please, just run.”
The door handle wriggled, crunching against the top of the chair. “Open up,” a police officer yelled.
My heart raced. Another wave of nausea.
I glanced back at poor Jack sprawled on the floor.
He didn’t deserve this.
None of them did.
I’d done this.
I’d done this because I was my father’s fucking son.
Neri pushed me harder. “Go. Get out. Run!”
Something heavy smashed against the door, trying to dislodge the chair.
“Run,” she hissed. “If you don’t fucking run, Aslan, I swear on my life, I’ll follow you to Turkey and find you if you get deported.”
Rage burned hotly. “You know why you can’t—”
“RUN!”
Fighting every instinct not to leave her, I drank in her fire, her ferocity, and fell so damn hard for the girl who fought so vehemently for me.
