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One leg lifted behind h the air as though gravity had ceased to exist My spine arched backward, curving gracefully as I went up onto the ball offoot

I wasn’t en pointe, and a critical ballet instructor could’ve found dozens of little things to correct But I knew this pose, had done it hundreds of times before And every time I did, I felt the same way

Beautiful

Powerful

Free

A loud sound startled aze flew to the shoreline The gathered observers roared their approval, whooping, stoaped at e as her hands clenched at her sides

A small, stunned smile stretched across h the noise on shore

I’d been pissed at hi me from her…

But maybe that wasn’t what had happened at all

Maybe he’d unleashed me on her instead

Chapter 22

“Did you know?”

Mason lifted his head fro over at me “Knohat?”

“With Adena, and the stupidcontest Did you know that would happen?”

He shrugged, relaxing back against the plush cushions “No I didn’t knoould happen But you’re empiricallyway she’d win”