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They’re no one.
You’re no one.
Just keep walking.
I balled my hands and marched faster, ignoring the screeching in my hip and the stabbing pains of my ribs as I struggled to catch a proper breath.
A glint of sunlight on a windscreen.
The familiar dinged-up sides of Jack’s Jeep as he pulled into the hospital drop-off zone, inching toward me.
Relief tried to buckle my knees.
My gaze shot immediately to the passenger side, my heart screaming for Neri.
Had she come?
Is she here?
But it was just Jack.
Just my father-in-law from a marriage witnessed by the moon and sea. A guy who’d probably banished his daughter from coming, just in case something happened.
I couldn’t blame him.
I couldn’t get mad.
But my heart didn’t behave.
It wasn’t mad.
It was sad.
Fucking endlessly sad because it missed her so fucking much.
Fifteen minutes and you’ll see her again.
Fifteen minutes and you’ll be home.
Sucking in a breath, I picked up my pace.
Just a little farther.
Hurry.
Jack spotted me and grinned.
His hand lifted from the steering wheel. He waved as he navigated into a parking spot ten metres away.
So close.
So near.
Keep walking.
Keeping my chin down, I focused on keeping my pain at bay and—
“Excuse me.” A solid hand landed on my shoulder, spinning me around.
