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Tick.
Her mouth parts and I know the words are coming. Same as I know my vision is starting to haze, clouding over.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.
“Let’s just say you aren’t the only one who knows how to light a match.”
Boom.
Time’s up.
Everything goes black.
twenty
Rory
Lornastartedthefire,not Cole.
Lorna had done it.
Lorna was to blame.
I can hear my name being repeated like an echo, but it sounds muddled and far away. I’m trapped in a repressed fog, detached from my body.
My limbs are being moved. Or is it shaken? All my brain registers ishername as the world fell from underneath my feet. The one person to blame for my beginning to end.
It wasn’t Cole. I want to breathe a sigh of relief, but I can’t seem to figure out how.
Iceman had put that fire out just like he said he had. Which meant he wasn't the only one who’d found me hiding in that barn that day.
It was Lorna.
Those blue eyes haunted me in my dreams for all these years. The ones I’d seen in the smoke before everything had gone dark.
I’d thought they were his but no, now I know I’d been wrong. Somehow, I’d skewed up the time line. I’d woken not once but twice, each time pulled back under by lightheadedness. The first after Lorna scurried off, the second when Cole saved me.
Both brief. Both events muddled into one in my memory.
I should’ve known better, realized sooner. Sure, their eyes are a similar shade, but the curve of Lorna’s is wider with a more pronounced curve on the top. Whereas Cole’s are narrow but always calculating.
It was Lorna.
Lorna did it! She tried to kill me.
The muscles in my body are sore from stiffness but also somehow still soft. Pliant, as I groan coming back.
Cole’s innocent.
More and more relief overshadows the tightness of everything else. Pushing out stale air and replacing it with fresh facts.
Open your eyes, Princess.
There’s that voice that I’d recognize anywhere. Cole. He’s close.
