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My fingers raked downmy elbows on my knees

I’dover a hundred feet in the air for twenty-four hours, and I’d ly told her it would be okay

I was a fucking, flah freshman years That’s what she’d toldGod, how bad had it been? I thought back to Ber into the caves Hell, even boarding the ship, she kept both hands on the banister and barely spoke until ere off the ramp

No wonder she’d passed out when she fell down the rauy she ith…Newco, right? Had she loved hihost?

I closed et the cruledlike a tiny piece of hell

I don’t do heights That’s what she’d said at the zip-line…and I’d forced her hand

The fight in the market started to make sense--when she told me that she was more acquainted with the concept of death than I ever would be

How much more could I have possibly fucked up with her?

Just don’t letevery last defense I’d had against her She trusted h, she’d put her hand in mine and trusted me with her life That instant connection I’d felt with her, first on the balcony and then when I found her in h to trust me less than an hour later

I was the luckiest and the stupidest bastard on the planet

"Pax? You ready?" Leah asked, startling hts that I hadn’t noticed she’d turned off the shower, let alone had tiet dressed She stood in the doorway to the bedroo a tank top and paja to fra her face between my hands "You look beautiful"

She snorted "Whatever makeup I had with me went down the shower drain"

Her eyes were still wide, the color like the tiger’s-eye bracelet my mother loved, her skin flushed and soft "You’re all the h-o to the store