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But Jace was a liar, just like the rest of them

Okay, so maybe liar was too harsh – but he was just like the others who kept telling et better

Eli

Mav

My stepmother, Mariana

They’d all proain that my father would pay for what he’d done to et my life back

But hoas I supposed to get sonized? My life had been watchingaddiction while I pretended to be a regular kid, even as ht after night Take those things away, and as I supposed to be? I’d hated whativen hi I now craved, but I’d still had moments where I felt alive

Moaet Sound and I’d reel in the first salmon

I’d feel that little spark of energy inside of me that lit up whenever limpses of the old Nick, the one I’d practically worshipped as a little kid There’d be those rare tis when I reotten divorced

Ca trips

Christmases ay too many presents

Elaborate birthday celebrations

Barbecues in the back yard

Those were the things I wanted back Soh price tag that came with it As sick as it was, I al to Nick and Eli what he’d done to me If it’d just been me, I would have found a way to live with it But ant one

I felt Jace shift behindout of bed I didn’t ask hi, because I knew

He’d felt the cuts on my arm He’d knohat they were

Now he’d be trying to find the cause of the else he could fix for me