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“Ash, put me down,” Lorraine said. “Really, I’m okay. Just let me walk.”
I studied her. Her face had filled out again, and her cheeks had pinkened. She didn’t look so pale anymore.
I lowered her to the ground, and she stood on her own two feet. She pressed her hand against her forehead.
“I had the weirdest dreams. Or…” She frowned and looked over my shoulder toward the road we’d come from. “It wasn’t a dream, was it?”
I shook my head.
“You came for me,” she said.
I nodded. “I’ll always come for you.”
“Ash…”
I shook my head again. “Whatever you want to say, save it. We have to get to the cabin where there’s more magic to get you better. This isn’t over yet. They want you, badly, and they know where to find you. They’re going to come back for you.”
“Shouldn’t we go somewhere else, then?”
“No.”
I turned toward the cabin and started walking. Lorraine fell into step beside me. She had no idea how fucking good I felt to see her alive and well. I’d really thought I’d lost her at one point.
“Why not?” she asked. “If they know where to find me, we should go somewhere else.”
“We’re going to let them come to us,” I said. “We’re on home turf now, and the power here belongs to me. I want to finish this once and for all. You don’t deserve a life where you need to run and hide forever. You want to go home, eventually, and they’re stopping you from doing that.”
Lorraine’s face filled with all kinds of emotions I didn’t understand, but right now, I didn’t care.
I had to make sure she was safe. I had to keep her alive and well until All Hallows’ Eve so I could get her back home in one piece. I’d started it, and fuck if I wasn’t going to see it through.
It was time to end this so that I could carry on with my life and she could go back to hers.
The idea of her leaving shot a pang into my chest, but it was better this way. I wasn’t good for her, she didn’t belong here, and I was on my way out of here anyway. If I hadn’t bound myself to her and had to look after her until the end of the month, I would have taken her home a long time ago so I could have left.
This had to end, and I was drawing a line now.
Fuck them for taking what was mine, and fuck them for screwing with me. It was time to set things right.
ChapterThirty-One
Lorraine
We finally reached the cabin. It felt like we’d walked for days. My body trembled, and I was out of breath. Still, I felt a lot better than I had when I’d woken up in the car. I’d thought I was done for at one point. I’d thought it was all over.
But somehow, Ash had found me. He came for me and saved me.
“Are you okay?” Ash asked when we stepped into the cabin. His eyes were filled with concern.
“I’ll be fine,” I said in a breathy voice. “I just feel…” I wasn’t sure what words to use to describe how I felt. I felt much better than I had, but something still wasn’t quite right. “I don’t know what I feel.”
Ash stepped closer to me and ran his fingers through my blonde hair, pushing it out of my face.
“I thought I lost you,” he murmured.
“I thought so, too. How did you find me?”
“You showed me.”
