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I couldn’t.
If I did, I’d lose him.
“Damn it!” I exclaimed. “You don’t get to leave me, you hear? It’s you and me, Ryder. Just you and me… it’s supposed to be you and me. Please, don’t fuckin’ leave me. I need you…”
I pressed my forehead to his and desperately willed him to hear me.
CHAPTER 27
The pain…
The fucking pain…
It seared through every inch of my body inside and out. I was bleeding. Raw. Broken.
I wanted to scream. Cry. Beg.
Something to get it all to stop.
I had no control over my power. No hope of making it go away.
Curling over myself, I clung to the ground, wringing my fingers in the grass. Grass? Gasping hard, I forced my eyes open. Blades of grass cut between my fingers.
Cut through where my fingers should’ve been.
No… no, no, no.
I glanced around me. Long grass, overgrown trees, scuffed-up glass. That inevitable nothing settled in my chest as I sank back on my heels.
Fuck. The greenhouse.
My head tipped back, and I sighed. I stared up at the domed ceiling, catching glimpses of sunlight.
I could feel the spell working its magic. It pulled more and more of me into the greenhouse. It was only a matter of time before I was stuck there for good.
The pain subsided with every passing moment, replaced by nothingness.
Fuck, I didn’t want to be here. I’d known the risks.
“Come back to me…”
I turned as Gray’s voice filled the greenhouse.
“You don’t get to leave me, you hear…”
I didn’t want to leave him.
“It’s you and me, Ryder…”
I closed my eyes with another hopeless sigh.
”Just you and me… it’s supposed to be you and me…”
Warmth spread through my chest, comforting.
“Please, don’t fuckin’ leave me. I need you…”
I needed him too.
