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This is it. The end.

This is all we got together.

There’s shouting, but everything sounds like it’s underwater.

I’m in and out. There are trees above me. The sky is blue and clear. Someone is carrying me, I think, but I don’t know who. I hear hurried footsteps and heavy breathing.

I’m laid down on something, but I can’t open my eyes anymore. It’s just too hard.

So I don’t fight it anymore. I just let the darkness come.

Chapter Thirty-Two

Raewyn

When I open my eyes, everything is blurry and my head hurts like I slept too much. I blink a few times, trying to clear my vision. I’m in a room that I don’t recognize.

It’s dark, but I see light peaking out from curtains covering large windows.

Forge and Pierce are both asleep in chairs against the wall. Forge is leaning back, his arms crossed and head against the wall. Pierce’s head is resting on his fist, his elbow on the arm of the chair.

I look down and see I’m in a bed, a white blanket covering me and wires poking out of my arm. There are machines beside me with numbers and lines, but I don’t know what any of them mean. I can guess that I’m in a hospital, even though I’ve never been to one before. I’ve heard of them and seen them on TV.

Joy fills me as I realize that I’m alive. That Pierce and Forge are here, and they’re okay. But then the memories of what happened come back.

I was kidnapped. Interrogated.

Forge shot that guy. And he shot him for no reason. I may not know a lot about the law and their job, but I do know that what he did is illegal. Forge wasn’t defending himself. He killed him because he wanted to.

It should scare me, but I think my brain is too busy with everything else. I don’t seem to care about what he did, other than worrying about him getting into trouble. Because at the end of the day, Forge protected me. He didn’t kill that man for fun, he did it because he threatened my life. Theirs too. He was going to kill me and them. Mendes told me the plan when he first got me there. He told me how there were men waiting in the woods for them to show, because he knew they would.

I tried to tell them, to open my mouth and say something, but by the time they got there, I was so dizzy that I couldn’t even think straight. All I knew was that we were all in danger. I didn’t think we were going to get out of their alive.

Yet here we are. All three of us. Alive and together.

I lay there for a while, just watching them sleep. I realize how lucky I am to have them, even if we met under terrible circumstances. We met and now we’re starting a life together—as soon as I get out of here.

There’s a soft knock on the door and someone comes in wearing nurse clothes. I think they’re called scrubs. Hers are dark pink, which match her hair. She gives me a smile when she sees me awake. The guys stir from their seats and the moment they realize my eyes are open, then jump up.