Page 394 of Black Reign

My attention snaps to him.

Drew's grin disappears slowly.

Sabine goes still beside me.

The room in Miami suddenly develops an intense interest in everything except the phone.

Fuck.

Drew clears his throat.

“I mean. You know. Obsessed. Whatever.”

Sabine's hand remains inside mine.

I don't look at her.

Not yet.

Kane saves Drew's life.

“Hey, X.”

I focus on him.

His expression is different now.

Warm.

Serious.

“You look happy.”

The joke drains out of the room.

I could dodge.

Normally I would.

Then Sabine's thumb moves once across my wedding ring.

Tiny.

Almost nothing.

I look at her.

She looks back.

Caramel curls.

Cornflower eyes.

My sweater.

My ring.

A woman who once existed only as words on a black screen sitting beside me while my oldest friends stare through another one.