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Maybe he was heading in the wrong direction—except, this was the way to the nearest subway stop and only his Sage would be pig-headed enough to ride the subway, alone, at this hour of the—

There she was

The rain and wind htailing it along the street in a thin dress and skinny heels on a night like this?

Didn’t she know enough, at least, to take off those shoes? If she slipped on the wet sidewalk and went down …

Caleb was already running at full speed

Somehow, he ran harder

Half a block away, he did soly stupid

He shouted her name

She glanced back, and went fro Great

“Sage, goddaht into his throat because she was approaching the corner, not slowing down, another couple of inches and she’d be stepping off the curb …

A big-ass delivery truck was hurtling into the intersection

“Sage,” Caleb yelled, and on one final burst of speed he wouldn’t have iined possible, he reached her, closed his arainst him

For a heartbeat, they re her, she wrapped safely in his arms

A wave of water big enough to have swamped the Titanic billowed over them

“Dae around, saw her face aith a ain and kissed her