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But I didn’t.
I couldn’t.
To touch her would be to agree to all of this, and there was still part of me that was hoping it was all a fucked-up dream.
Yet, sadness washed over me. I looked at the little girl. “I’m sorry.”
“Come on!” Lunita’s voice echoed from down the hall. “We don’t have all the time. I have my own life.”
“Girl, bye. You’re lucky I can’t kill you.”
Lunita snorted and picked up her pace.
Rolling my eyes, I continued forward and gazed at the little girl. “What did you name your lion?”
“Kaz.” She grinned. “Of course.”
“Of course.” I lifted my view, not knowing how I should feel about that.
The little girl spoke, “You keep asking about a host.”
“There’s got to be a core person. That’s what I read. This would be the person that was the starting point to us.”
“We don’t know where she is at.”
“But you know who she is?”
“No.”
“Then, maybe I am the starting point.” Hope filled me.
The little girl giggled. “You’re not.”
I frowned. “Why is everyone so certain? You all could be mistaken.”
“You’re the Boss because when she made you, she finally knew what to do.”
I blinked. “She made me?”
“I think you were created to protect us. To take the brunt of everything bad. . .so we wouldn’t have to.”
My gut twisted. “That can’t be right. I don’t remember the bad stuff.”
“You were there when X died.”
Pain bit into me. “That’s. . .different.”
“Instead of the Boss, I wanted to call you the Shield, but they outvoted me.”
“I think you all are wrong.” I picked up my pace.
Lunita’s voice rang out from further down the corridor. “Hurry up!”
“I’m going to slap her.”
The little girl grinned. “It wouldn’t hurt her.”
“But, it would make me feel good. Sometimes that’s all I need.” I thought about where we were going. “So, this M is going to have answers?”
