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“Yes, I made a deal with the Changelings. They were supposed to take me and my friends home after I discovered who your brother was loyal to. But I never knew your brother then. I’d never even heard of Titans. Or aliens. Seriously. And ever since I met him, I knew there was something special about him. I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. I knew he was the one for me.”
Despite her best efforts, Emana’s expression softened. She folded her arms.
“How could you do it to him?” she said. “I thought you… I thought you were our friend.”
“I was. I mean, I am. I came back.”
Emana turned away from me.
“You’re too late,” she said.
I gasped and my heart might have stopped.
“You mean he’s… dead?” I said.
I wrapped my arms around my stomach and rocked back and forth. I fought against hurling on the shuttlecraft earlier but now my stomach emptied and I didn’t even care.
He was gone. Taken from me.
And it was all my fault.
I knew then I wouldn’t run, wouldn’t put up a fight. I’d hand myself over to the Changelings and let them kill me, punish me any way they wanted. I deserved every last inch.
“He’s not dead, silly,” Emana said, rolling her eyes. “At least, not yet. But he will be if we just sit here, throwing up over ourselves.”
I wiped my mouth.
“Sorry,” I said. “When you said I was too late… I thought you meant… Really too late.”
“I meant he’s been captured. I don’t know what they’ve got planned for him on that stage but the moment he steps on it, he’s either dead or as good as.”
“Then we’d better rescue him,” I said.
“You betrayed him,” Emana said. “You worked with his enemies against him. As you got closer to him, you must have known you were falling for him. Why didn’t you tell him why you were there? Or tell me?”
“Oh yeah, right. Imagine the conversation: ‘Hey. Do you remember when we first met at the palace? Funny story. I was put there by your mortal enemy. The one who just conquered your entire species.’”
Emana rolled her eyes.
“Okay,” she said. “So maybe you don’t need to say it exactly like that…”
“I know. I just… I didn’t realize before now how much he meant to me.”
“But you still could have told him.”
“I was afraid! Okay? I was afraid I was in love with a big sexy alien man.”
Emana grimaced.
“Ew,” she said. “He’s my brother. You can’t talk about him like that with me around.”
“Sorry. But he is. I don’t ever want to be with someone else.”
Emana grinned.
“Aw,” she said. “That’s pretty cute. But look, if you betray a Titan, you have to at the very least get your arm broken.”
“Whoa!” I said. “I’m not a Titan, remember? I don’t heal super-fast like you guys.”
