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Eventually, the tunnel widened Pale, predawn light sliced through the roo, the trustees’ words echoing in rabbed ain"

"I killed someone," I said

"You saved Bex," he countered

"They think I’erous They think--"

"They don’t know you!"

My hair was almost its normal color My uniform didn’t s me quite like it had a week before Slowly,to feel irl I’d been when I left, and I knew it I shouldn’t have been surprised that the best spies in the world would know it too

"They don’t know you," Zach said again He grabbed ers," I told hireed, as if that should make me feel better

"Iers" I pulled away and looked up into his eyes "And they think soue, to say that everything was going to be fine It was a lie I was ready and willing to believe But the words didn’t coh his hair and asked, "Why did you kill him, Cammie?"

"I don’t know," I ad it I was--"

"Why didn’t you let me?"

Okay, now’s probably the ti that

Zach leaned closer tothe minuscule space in a step "They teach us how to do those things At Blackthorne"

It felt strange to have hi about his school--his life It felt even weirder to have hiher Acaderaduates clueless on the subject, you know" I didn’t mean to sound offended, but I was

But Zach was shaking his head "They teach you how to save lives They teach us how to take them And then, how to live with ourselves after…" He touched the cool glass of the"It’s allis your fault"

"I told you to run away" Zach shook his head "I gave you the idea"

"No you didn’t," I said "I’d known for a long time that it was my best option"

"You should have takenAnd if he had known, I seriously doubt he would have cared "You needed me"

He reached for the spot on my head, but I sidestepped his touch and moved away

"Why? So I could watch Mr Soloé throw himself on another boet hurt?"

"So we could keep each other safe"

"News flash, Zach I am safe!"

He looked at e amnesiac It’s a look I know pretty well

"You could have died, Ca," I said, defiant "And I’m ho closer

"I’m fine," I said just as Zach reached me

"You could have died," he said just asover and over, "I don’t re about er, or asse the rifle on ether in a blur

"I killed someone"

"I know"

"I killed soer That can’t be normal You take a man’s life, you should remember it You should think about it You should knohat you’re doing and…"

But I never finished because then Zach’s lips found hthe back of

"I re his chest, his breath warm on the side of my face I breathed him in--Zach "I reain, and the kiss was all that mattered He pulled back, traced his lips across the tender place on hts centering on the single thing I really had to know "Are you afraid of me, Zach?"

"No"

I looked at him, felt my hands shake and hteen

You anization, an aht by Macey McHenry wouldinto the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands With a boy

"Well, how are you this ?" Tina Walters said, and I knew she had no idea what had happened on our field trip, or who had come to our door before the sun had risen Or why

I hoped they would never knohy

"Scoot," Zach told her, and Tina s down to make room for the two of us on the bench