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"Kyra?" The hairs that had already been standing on end vibrated as his voice, a voice I’d been waiting to hear for three and a half weeks, a voice I’d willedthen, closing those last steps that separated us I didn’t stop to ask why he was here, or to worry about whether Griffin or anyone else atching, or what they thought about me or Tyler or the fact that we knew each other I launchedhis ar to feel hi just inches beneathhe’d been through, after everything I’d put hih

It had been a risk to take him to Devil’s Hole, and it had paid off Tyler had been Returned

"Tyler Oh ht never let go, I thought as I got lost in his embrace He felt leaner than I remembered, which wasn’t at all impossible, and possiblythe saimen as the rest of Griffin’s camp

But his T-shirt had that same Tyler sht ca as I ith Tyler I wanted to tell hiht here--was h More than I could have dared to hope for

"Kyra," he repeated, and I wondered how many times he’d said my name at the same time I’d said his "II can’t believe you’re here"

"I know," I said back, while he pulled away and gazed down at -brilliant green eyes of his, and I tried to decide if they were more brilliant than they’d been before or if they’d always been this dazzling "I was thinking the sa have you been back?" My face crumpled as the tears finally broke to the surface "II wasn’t sure I’d ever see you again"

Tyler crushed ainst the top ofconsoled by Tyler, as like that, familiar--that I almost didn’t hear what he said next I onna say the saht they’d ever see you again" His arhtened and his voice rose, an elated kind of sound "I can’t even iine what Austin would think if he was here"

My heart stopped again, but this time in a bad way

And then he pulled back, and that hopeful look on his face fell away "We can’t tell hi it like this was new infor super low as he tried to make me understand "Austin, your parents, they can’t know you’re back"

I blinked What the hell was he even talking about? They couldn’t knohatthat I was back? I turned to Si away, and then to Griffin, who had her eyes trained solely on Tyler, and wasn’t paying any attention to me at all

"You two know each other?" she asked Tyler, and there was so slippery about the way she looked at me, like she totally already knew all this Like I’d been played

Tyler glanced back at her and put his arm around my shoulder in a very pal-like way Pals, he told her with that gesture, andyou about Kyra Agnew" He shrugged, and his pal-hug tightened "I’ve known her sinceforever No one’s seen her in" He did theit’d been, I wanted to vanish again because I knehere he was going with this "Five years," he finished, grinning down atyears"

"You’ve known all this ti she hadn’t sent Tyler away, but seriously glad to be alone with her so I could have the chance to give her a piece of my mind "I heard him--he told you my name He told you I’d been taken All this time ere in the same camp and you knee knew each other You knew he’d want to seeeither of us Why would you keep us apart like that? What’s wrong with you?"

But Griffin, or "Griff" as Sihtest bit fazed by ations, not in the way I wanted her to be I wanted her to be ashamed the way a normal person would have been

Instead she stared at me expressionlessly, like the dictator I suspected she was "I did it for Tyler He’s only been here a short time, and I wanted to ease him into camp life Keep his old life separate fro up here, that wasinconvenient I would’ve told hi at ed her

Griffin just snorted "Really none of your concern what I do, or do not, tell my people"

"Tyler’s not one of your people"

"He is now Ask him" She smirked, and I knew she had me I’d seen him I’d seen the way he looked to her as his leader And I’d heard the way he’d described irl and the two of us were pals, the e’d been before I’d co to stay angry with her but losing steam "How did youfind him?" It was supposed to be me, I wanted to shout at her Or ain I was supposed to find him