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"No, it was! Jack called ht, and he told me she was dead, and I-" I cried harder, and I wiped at the tears with the palm of my hand "I felt her die, Peter! I felt what she felt, and she was so afraid! She was terrified, and I didn’t do anything!"

"You couldn’t do anything" He wrapped his arm around me and pulled me close to him I buried my head in his shoulder and sobbed "You didn’t know, and you couldn’t do anything"

Peter stroked ht, but it wasn’t It wasn’t just that I’d felt Jane die, and I hadn’t done anything about it, although that weight of the guilt threatened to crush me It was that I kne scared and how horrible it had been for her to die

Even though I’d known she’d been murdered, part of me had been able to hold out that it had been painless If she’d been bitten before she died, she would’ve been unconscious, and she wouldn’t have knohat happened

But now I knew She had felt everything She’d known she was dying, and it had beenI had ever felt before

Even after I stopped crying, I let Peter hold me in his arms I should’ve pushed him away for a lot of different reasons, but I didn’t have the strength for it His aro, I’d fall into a million pieces

"What happened to Jane isn’t your fault" He spoke into my hair, so his words came out muffled He kissed the top of my head and stroked my hair back from my tear stained cheeks

"It doesn’t matter" I shookon ht"

"How?"

"I’ll find a way" I sed hard and didn’t look at him I couldn’t tell him my plans to destroy the bastard that had killed Jane Peter would freak out as bad as Jack would, if not worse

"Don’t do anything stupid, Alice," he warned hed, and the flat sound echoed off the cavern walls Suddenly, I felt asha face "Sorry I didn’tto be sorry for," Peter assured me

"Yeah, I really do" I wiped ot your own stuff, and you don’t need to worry about ht" He stood up with me and pushed up the sleeves of his shirt I started to stuy, and he held up his hand "Alice It’s fine"

I liftedht about Jack’s apologies fro me into life because he knew the va into Peter’s eyes, I wondered if I’d feel the saivenI was so desperate for

"Peter!" Daisy shouted, breaking hts