Initium (Nocte Trilogy #2.5)(19)

He’s as white as death,

He’s terrified, and he’s screaming my name, clutching at my hand, pulling at my body sprawled on the floor.

I falter, my feet on the windowsill, even as the light reaches my toes.

I can’t

I can’t

I can’t leave him.

I can’t leave him alone.

First he left me, but it turned out he really didn’t. He would never leave me alone, and I can’t leave him either.

With a sigh, I step down from the sill, and slip back into my body, and when I open my eyes again, I’m in the hospital.

“You’re allergic to nuts,” the nurse tells me solemnly, and my mom and my brother are sitting on the bed with me.

“You can never eat nuts again,” my mother tells me, and her eyes are filled with terror.

“You died for a minute and a half,” Finn announces, and he no longer looks afraid, instead, he looks intrigued. Because I’m safe now. Because I was dead, and now I’m not.

I should feel different, but I don’t.

It intrigues me, too.





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