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-Text from Luca to Frankie
Luca
It’d been a long fucking two days.
And, as I stared at my so-called friend, I knew it was about to get longer.
I could see how we were mistaken for each other, however.
Well, we wouldn’t be mistaken anymore.
But we would have been once upon a time.
Malachi wasn’t scarred like me.
But I did see ghosts haunting his eyes.
“This is very unusual,” Gabe, no, my father, said. “I thought that y’all didn’t share this kind of
information.”
Malachi had shown up with Tim, as well as the commander and Hayes who had talked with us at
the beginning of our stay.
“It is,” the commander agreed. “However, we felt that we owed an explanation.”
Malachi was staring at me, his face a mask of torture and pain.
“Why are you staring?” I finally asked.
Malachi’s lips turned up at the corners.
“I’m staring at you because I’m honestly not sure how the hell you survived,” he admitted.
“Me?” I asked. “According to Hayes.” I gestured to the quiet man that hadn’t said much since this
meeting had begun. “You were the one that almost took your own life. That, until just now, we thought had taken his own life.”
Malachi’s head tilted slightly.
“That’s true,” he said. “But I didn’t die. Unfortunately.”
Frankie inhaled deeply.
“Unfortunately?” she asked a bit breathlessly.
Malachi’s eyes turned to her and softened.
“Yes, unfortunately,” he agreed. “We…I…it wasn’t the best of conditions.”
We waited for more, but he didn’t give us more.
He looked rough.
Ragged and worn out. Malnourished and scruffy.
His eyes were sunken in and he looked as if he’d just gone twelve rounds and lost.
