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I gave it to her, breaking the vow of secrecy I’d sworn to him, because I couldn’t bear to lie to her

"Because he’s in a fucking wheelchair He couldn’t land the rotation, and the crash paralyzed him" There it was

I expected her reaction to be nuclear It was netic pulse There was no explosion, but the light in her eyes, the happy energy she’d had radiating around her all , died in a split second

I would have rather seen her rage than watch those dao back up

She didn’t say a word, simply kissed me, the press of her lips heavy with fear and a touch of desperation Then she turned tohere she’d sat all yesterday and walked away

Yeah I definitely would have rather had a yelling Leah than a silent one

When I finally had ear on, ready to hit the ramp for the first ti to see an es covered in white, gauzy pants, reading one of the literature books Penna had brought with her froned ho was dangerous, that anyin the hospital with me--she was there

Damn it, that pressure was back inwith an intensity that only Leah could soothe, because she was the bal that was broken inside me

I prayed that I didn’t break her, too

Chapter Twenty-One

Leah

Mykonos

He was insane That was the only reason I could come up with for why he would do this to himself Any one of these people could have s, or weakened his chest protector, and he was putting his life in their hands Again Watching hih, but this was torturous He started his umpteenth run at the ramp--I’d lost count of how , tuh space, until he landed closer to the full rotation in the foa down soon, because I wasn’t sure how much more of this he could take, let alone how much more I could sto what had worked, as Little John moved the crane to lift him out

Paralyzed The only other person was paralyzed

Over a stupid trick

Yep, insane That was the only answer

I flipped another page in Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet and tried to pay attention, but it was useless We’d already missed a couple of each class, and I didn’t even want to think about what it was going to take to catch us both up, but I was going to have to