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It wasn’t until I saw brainto come back intoa few feet away, then curling up into a ball as the sobs racked my system

I cried like I never recalled crying before, fro for air,from the salt of my tears

I was still trying to pull rabbed my shoulder

It was right about then that I remembered them

The brick wall guy who’d killed Bellamy

And the dude I pushed down the hill

They were still out there

They could still be co for me

My hand curled into a fist as I whipped ontoblindly at my attacker

Only it wasn’t my attacker

I realized it as my fist collided with his jaw

Bellamy

“No,” I said, shakingtricks on me “You’re dead,” I insisted

“Iself, but I assure you, I am not dead, love,” he said

And that was exactly what the real Bellarief-stricken hallucination of him

“How?”

“The big one tooktoward my face

“It’s notthe concern in his eyes “Well, so tohere twodown at Adams’s body

“No, don’t look,” Bell insisted, turning my face back to him “It’s fine It’s okay You did what you had to do to survive”

“I know that,” I agreed, nodding Was a small part of me horrified at how hard I’d slammed rocks into an already-dead man’s head? Sure But the other part of me knew that, no matter what, I would always do whatever it took to survive That ho I was I was not going to feel bad for what I’d done “How did you find me?” I asked

“We followed the screauys—a bearded one with either dark blond or light brown hair, it was hard to tell in the dark—said

“What screa?”