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And it was probably s, but I wanted to believe he’d asked to hold me not just for me, but for him too

I wasn’t sure how Jace kneas safe to release e ular position, with hiainst my back, his arrabbed some tissues I didn’t resist as he workedfroers He held the tissues againststopped

We didn’t speak, because there was nothing to say

Nothing had changed I wasn’t one away I’d done it all for nothing I hadn’t evenadmission that I was so much more than a freak who sliced up his own skin to feel better

So if nothing had changed, why did I feel different?

Not better, exactly

Just… different

Emptier maybe, but not in the way I liked

It wasn’t until e of sleep crept in that I realized as different I wasn’t eht word

Jace’s htened around my midsection as his breath fanned over the back of my neck, and I wanted to smile Did he think I would float away fro?

And that hen it hit me

That different feeling… I wasn’t feeling e I hadn’t felt in a really long time

Lighter

Chapter 7

Jace

He was gone when I woke up and the panic that went through me was complete and absolute That ice in three days that he’d et away fro

I practically fell out of bed as I tried to get s I darted toward the upper deck but ca in front of the s into a skillet He looked up at ers above the crackling pan

“You’re still here,” I said dumbly

I saw a shost across his mouth “We’re in the o?” He dropped his eyes to what he was doing, but the smile didn’t leave his face

I’d take it

After the hell of last night, I’d prettyat this point