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A single glance, and I knew the truth.
It was her.
And she was heading straight for me.
I couldn’t stay in my seat. I ran to her. She wrapped her arms around me. They’d removed her restraints for this very image. We were being exploited and I didn’t give a damn.
“What are you doing here?” I said. “Why are you here?”
“It was the only way,” she said.
I could see in her eyes there was more she wanted to say but she couldn’t do it. Not in front of so many eyes and ears.
We kissed. It was full-on and passionate and full of love.
If we wanted to play to the audience’s emotions, there was nothing we could do that was more powerful than this.
And I knew instinctively, it wasn’t going to work.
Neither would my earlier plan. It was a desperate attempt to reverse the track I was riding.
But there was no changing it.
The Changelings had a schedule to keep and they weren’t going to let a little thing like innocent people get in the way.
“All right, you crazy love birds,” Quus said. “Let’s get you over to the sofa and get some juicy details.”
I took Maddy by the hand and led her to my spot on the sofa.
With the last-minute preparations, there weren’t enough chairs, so the Changeling siblings took position behind us. Iron Hoof scowled at them.
“Wow,” Quus said. “I don’t think we’ve ever had anything like this happen before. How does it feel to be making Lovers’ Escape history right now?”
“It feels pretty great,” Maddy said.
I could smell her beside me, that intoxicating femininity I couldn’t resist. She was so close… and yet the moment this segment was over, so would we be.
“So, tell us, Maddy, what happened after that shuttlecraft explosion? We thought you were gone for good.”
Maddy spoke but I was distracted by her hand.
She tapped me on the back of the forearm, sending me a coded message. She was doing it right in front of the audience, the cameras, everybody…
And no one had any idea what it meant.
Except us.
PREPARE YOURSELF, she tapped.
FOR WHAT, I replied.
FOR FREEDOM
My mouth felt dry.
HOW, I tapped.
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