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"Is she going to be okay?" Howard addressed Silas worriedly

"I don’t know," Silas said gris in order to breathe, she doubted if okay was anything she would ever be again

CHAPTER

TWENTY-FOUR

Silas watched Peri breathe, aht before him Both timelines held information they needed: who’d betrayed her and how deep the corruption went He had frag he could hold it all until he had the entire two lines But the h the two timelines weren’t yet coherent, she had them both now The more they fell into place, the , full into ahe’d screwed up, leaving her mind to destroy itself

"Turn left," Silas whispered, his voice just louder than the car’s engine They’d been interrupted, and he didn’t knohat to destroy, what to fix And she was in agony Damn you, Allen I blame you "It’s the third one up Stone ay," he said

"I see it," Taf said, and Silas held Peri closer to h-end subdivision He could feel Peri’s thoughts circling as she tried to organize the memories he’d unearthed Her pain and betrayal resonated in hi her sane right now, the desire for revenge She couldn’t allow others to believe they wouldn’t be held accountable for what they’d done But it was only a ht place Grief wouldn’t be a strong enough eether then

"Peri?" he whispered when he realized her shaking had stopped "Stay with me"

"Is she okay?" Howard said from up front, and her eyelids flickered

"No" Silas’s voice was ragged as his thumb brushed the hair from her cheek "Peri, can you hear , pained sound, and he fastened on it She could hear him, even lost in the twin timelines her mind was stuck on If he could er than the past, he ? "Hang on," he whispered, seeing Karley’s two-story hohts "Concentrate on what you hear I’o"

His heart leapt when her narrow chin quivered She’d heard hier than he’d ever given her credit for

"Dropto the door with Peri still in his arms "I don’t want a second tire track in the drive Ditch the car and come back Karley will be more likely to letPeri here? But he had no choice, ex-wife or not

"Silas …," Howard protested, even as he got out to help

The sudden cold was bitter Lurching, he got out with her in his ar, she opened her eyes, but he could tell she wasn’t seeing the gray and white snow above them

"Stay with Taf," Silas said, and Howard reluctantly dropped back "Karley will help me She doesn’t like me, but she’ll help me, if only to tell me how stupid I arowing Not knohat to do, he started up the steep drive, staying within the tire track to ot back into the car, but they didn’t drive away, and Silas frowned as he used his elbow to ring the doorbell She had to be hoht snow

"I can fix this, Peri," he whispered "Hang on just a little er Jack had used her, used her love to blind her, the very ht to shoot hiht spilled over the in the glow from inside the cavernous, ostentatious house She was still dressed frolass of whatever she’d been drinking, heels off, purse on the table by the door Frowning, she put a s under her professional suit dress Her brown hair was pulled back in a clip that ant "I need your help," Silas said when Karley leaned to look past hi at the curb

"Of course you do," she said, eyes co," Silas added, and Karley laughed bitterly

"Neither are you Opti has already been here looking for you I’ain"

"This isn’t about ot out of control We were interrupted, and she’s in overdraft I can’t take her to Eot the end to this buried in her mind It’s not too late to pull her out I just need a quiet room"

Guilt kept his eyes fir to the women he loved early on There had to be a way to save both Peri and the memories she held He just didn’t kno to do it yet