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Her heart beat faster. A wave of delight warmed her chest. It had been a long time since someone had seen potential in her.
We both know your ideas weren’t that good.Imade them great, that same slithery voice hissed in her mind.Just like we both know how you got the job.
“How did you open the portal?” she asked. Something, anything to quiet down that voice that still haunted her. Rotten, ghastly memories that didn’t deserve a single one of her synapses.
“I don’t know,” Nazyn said.
“What?” Darcy said. Through her shock, she turned around too quickly.
Her boot slipped.
Her skirt constricted her knees and she couldn’t find her balance.
Her back hit the railing.
The metal broke with a sickening snap.
And Darcy fell into the ravine.
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NAZYN
The world stopped as the rail cracked and Darcy plummeted into the darkness.
Nazyn didn’t breathe.
He didn’t think.
He acted purely on instinct.
Darcy was in danger. He had to save her.
One second he stood on the bridge, in the next he jumped after her. His training at the Academy served him well. He tensed his arms around his body, so he’d be more aerodynamic and picked up speed.
Harsh wind slashed against his face.
Darcy flailed in the air.
She had her eyes closed and couldn’t possibly see him. She thought she was going to die.
Not with Nazyn by her side.
Her scream tore at him.
A familiar sting erupted between his shoulder blades. A moment later, his wings burst through his skin, ripping his human clothes.
Just as Darcy reached the tops of the trees at the bottom of the ravine and her scream turned to a wail, Nazyn swooped in. He caught her lithe body and cradled her to his chest.
The moment his hands circled around her, he felt at ease again.
“I got you,” he said as he flew up, narrowly avoiding a jagged rock.
Darcy opened her eyes and screamed again. “Shit, I’m dead. Fuck!”
“You’re not dead,” Nazyn said soothingly.
“Of course you’d say that, you’re a figment of my imagination,” she went on, now more angry than scared. One of her hands coiled around his neck. Her body had already understood what her brilliant–but shocked–mind refused to.
