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"Be careful on your way home, then I’d offer to drive you, but I kno far that would get ave Bay a quick squeeze and then drew back, frustrated that Tynan had reappeared in her thoughts so quickly All she needed was sleep, she decided Lots and lots of sleep She could take care of herself perfectly well, just as she’d told Bay And there was nothing wrong with her
"I’ll bring burgers by the shop to a cheerful note into her voice
"Sounds good," Bay said with a nod "I’ll probably need the moral support Moses comes in tomorrow"
Lily shuddered in sy business, and a lot of that success had co with fur, even if it was ornery She even loved Moses, the excitable Saint Bernard that, though friendly, seemed to have soers from Frank’s it is, then," Lily said "I’m sure we’ll be able to find some tiny spot to eat that isn’t covered with sli of covered in slieek Wish me luck!"
Lily did, and watched Bay bounce back up the aisle and out the door As the door clicked shut, Lily’s ss, feeling her fatigue weighing on her as though sandbags had been tied to all of her li to stop by her office She was just going to get in her car, drive home with theopen so she was sure to stay alert, and then collapse into bed
After that, well, she could only hope that her sleep was full of pleasant dreams, or at least unmemorable ones Or even just dark oblivion All of those options were far better than watching the wo her green silk dress black while her baby screamed somewhere in the darkness beyond and all the world went up in fla hite-hot pain
It tingled even as she thought it, and Lily shuddered, pushing the visions fro on the tasks at hand She slid the papers into herwith the notes she’d used for the day’s lecture, then shrugged into the soft leather jacket that had been one of her splurges for the fall The bag slung over one shoulder, her travelcollected, she was off A couple of her students waved at her as she exited Digby Hall and headed down the path that led to one of the s lots tucked behind the lecture halls
She breathed in the crisp autu this early in the day The sun was gone, and what light was left had turned the sky a deep bloodred that was rapidly fading in the west Her steps were quick, the sound of her low boot heels clicking against the pave punctuated only occasionally by the sounds of distant chatter Lily watched a student hop into her car and drive off, the only other person in sight Unease unfurled, quickly and unexpectedly, in her stoirl for how to get bad things to happen to you?
"I’irl who always dies first in horror h"
The thought ht sight of her car, now surrounded by e her keys from her pocket when she felt the hair on the back of her neck begin to rise Her steps quickened Instinctively, she knew she was no longer alone--and she was being very carefully watched Every movement Every rapid beat of her heart
Lily sed hard, drew in a shallow breath Without even looking, she kneho it was Her encounter with Tynan MacGillivray ht have left her in a fog that hadn’t coet how his very presence had nificant planet being pulled inexorably into the orbit of a powerful, and potentially deadly, star
Over the last couple of days, she’d al tooBut now, confronted again with the way every cell in her body tingled at his nearness, her nor to desert her, she knew her initial instincts had been right
There was soerous And yet she found herself turning to where she kneanting desperately to see his face again
He stood at the edge of the deserted parking lot, just outside the bright glow of the lights that illuh he’d been conjured out of her darkest longings and made flesh There was little shadow to be had anywhere near the lights’ fluorescent glow, and yet it seeht as she drank him in, maybe men like Tynan simply created their own shadow That was crazy--but no crazier than the rest of this
"Lily You and I need to talk"