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Agony pulsed through Peri as a"Love!" Sandy shrieked "There is no such thing as love!"

Teeth clenched, Peri threw her knife at her She wanted her to shut up

Sandy twisted to avoid it, crashing into theit as she fell

Peri moaned as Silas destroyed the memory since the mirror was clearly intact, butblur until Silas fastened on one

"Hey, I gave her a clean memory," Jack said, and she hated him more than anyone in her life "Do you kno hard it is to fragment an entire person? Make a realistic tiet away, but it was a trap of her ownHe couldn’t control it Nues passed faster and furious Silas couldn’t catch the to drown her in insanity

But as she sat on the floor and shook, she didn’t think she cared any on the floor and she couldn’t save hi her head from the scratched boards, and she wanted Jack dead She wanted hi touched her ears Silas’s arlass in the front door shattered A dark hand snaked in, looking for the lock Dazed, Peri stared at it, wondering if she was alive She was on the floor Silas rapped around her as if he could keep her fro apart by his touch alone He hadn’t knohat to frag for supre her insane

"Thank God you told ray in the parking lot behind hiain Howard couldn’t really be here

"Silas!" the irabbed Silas’s shoulder "We have to go! Pick her up!"

Peri’s breath ca her up in one ot a car Another friend of hers Co, and she was dying Howard held the door, and the flush of cool air struck Peri with the suddenness of a slap

"What happened?" Howard said, pacing beside the I shouldn’t have"

Peri’s chest hurt as she felt her breath coo Around and around theinto shock

"What’s wrong with Peri?" Taf said froot Peri into the backseat

"Just go!" so too fast for even an e lot Dazed and unable to separate reality from memory, Peri breathed in the scent of Silas as he held her in the backseat She looked at her hands, wondering where the blood was The sky was gray The ground was gray She was gray, stuck between the two She loved Jack She’d killed Jack Everything was all at once Where there had been a hole in herconfusion and loss, es that made no sense She couldn’t handle two realities If she could, she’d be an anchor<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>