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Not yet. Listen. Just listen.

Declan shoved through two people at the base of the stands.

Sadie saw him. Relief broke across her face so hard it almost hurt to look at.

“Chief.”

He reached us. He looked at me first.

Only me. Then his eyes followed mine to the drain.

“She’s been staring at that drain for like a full minute,” Sadie said. “She won’t answer me.”

Declan moved in front of me. “Hazel.”

Sadie’s grip tightened on my arm. “This is some body-snatchers shit, Chief.” Her voice cracked. “Make her look at you.”

Declan crouched slightly, bringing his face directly into my line of sight.

“Hazel.” His mouth moved. His voice came from him.

That mattered. Something inside me caught.

Declan. His eyes. Pale hazel.

His mouth moving again.

“Look at me, babygirl.”

I was.

Snap.

Static. Reality came loose.

Declan disappeared.

Dirt. Bare knees. Dark. The smell of blood.

A voice came through the earth.

Listen.

I bent.

The stadium came back before I reached the ground.

Declan caught me by the shoulders.

“No.” His voice was close. “Stay up.”

I heard him. My body kept folding.

He tightened his grip without hurting me.

“Hazel, don’t.”

Closer. I dropped into a crouch.