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Chapter 102
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Julian's POV: The Beta and the BaitVivian runs into me so hard that I stagger back a step.Her arms lock around my waist, tight as a vise. She starts kissing me on my cheek, my jaw, my neck, the hollow of my throat, the front of my shirt. It is frantic little kisses, as if she's trying to prove to herself that I'm real. She smells of dust and sweat and something sour underneath, like fear gone stale. Her shoulders shake in my hold. Two days. She's been missing for two days, and for most of them I was sure I knew exactly where she was and why.Around us, police are fanning out through the trailer park, flashlights jabbing through the dusk, boots crunching on dry grass and broken glass. Once, I'm told, this place was crowded. Families hung laundry between the rusted hitches. Kids rode bikes in loops around the water tower. Someone's radio played from every window. Now the trailers sit in crooked rows like bad teeth, doors hanging off hinges, windows blind with grime. A swing set st
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Julian's POV: Delayed DetonationI hold myself together all the way to the taxi. I hold together through the ride, through the first small hotel I see with a flickering vacancy sign. Then through the clerk who doesn't look up from his crossword, through the stairs, the key, and finally the click of the lock.The door shuts behind me, and I let go.Now I'm on the floor with my back against the bed, knees drawn up, weeping so hard my nostrils are blocked with sinus. It is great, gulping sobs, the kind I haven't allowed myself since I was a girl. The carpet smells of old cigarettes and lemon cleaner. I don't care. I honk into a toilet paper. It was the kiss. Julian's kiss was a missile with a nuclear warhead, and it struck the dead center of a dam I've been building for six years, one brick of resentment at a time. But the explosion was delayed. For nearly thirty minutes the dam held, shuddering, hairline cracks racing through the concrete, while I sat in the back of a taxi staring out
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Julian's POV: The Face Behind My EyelidsI pull away so suddenly that her head knocks softly against the bark.For a moment I just stare. A stranger's face hangs inches from mine, flushed, the lips slightly parted, and it is wrong. It's wrong in a way I can't put a finger on. When I shut my eyes during the kiss, another face rose up behind my eyelids, so vivid it might have been painted there. Not hers. Trinity's."Trinity?" I mutter.The woman's eyes are glazed, unfocused, like someone surfacing from deep water. Then they snap clear. "What?" she gasps. "I saw . . ."I never finish the thought. On instinct I look back through the trees, and my heart stops. Jack is out on the wooded path with a policeman. Both of them are turning in slow circles, scanning the park like men searching a field for a lost dog. They haven't spotted us yet. The oak's wide trunk and the dark tangle of branches are the only things hiding us.I turn back to her. "We'll meet again. Find me, please. Find me."I
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Trinity's POV: The Sweetest TrapProtect me?The words ring in my head like a dropped bell. Protect me. Julian Hayes, who once told me over breakfast that my cooking was "survivable," is offering to shield me from the law. The implications are staggering, and I can't hold a single one of them long enough to look at it. I try to wriggle my hand free, and his fingers tighten."Stop resisting!" he hisses."Let me go!" I hiss back."I can't let my mate get arrested. Don't you understand that?""I'm not your mate, you crazy—"“Hey!” he yells in my face. He had stopped so suddenly that I nearly crash into his chest. He glowers down at me, his eyes fiery in the gray afternoon light. He says, "I'm crazy? I'm not the one wearing a stranger's name. I saw you in my hometown, in a restaurant. That's where it first happened. Remember? You wore sunglasses then too. What are you hiding? Who are you? I don't even know how this happened."He starts hauling me along again. He keeps muttering as he g
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Trinity's POV: Dead EndI burst out of the alley into a busy street and quickly join the flow of human traffic. The moment Julian's phone rang, I knew something was wrong. I slipped away while his back was turned, through the kitchen door and out into a grimy alley. I almost run into a dumpster overflowing with the waste from the restaurant. Now I stand on the sidewalk with no idea where I am. I don't know this side of Manhattan. I take a moment to get my bearings. I glance back at the rear of the restaurant and work it out: I'm about a mile from the hospital. Good. And I can feel him. The connection is like two magnets, the closer we are, the harder they pull.The sensible thing, the only thing, is to run in the opposite direction. Instead I'm standing here as if waiting to be found. Part of me wants to move. That part feels like a stranger living in my body, a small, frightened voice I barely recognize. The other part wants to stay put on this sidewalk until Julian finds me. It e
Echoes Of The Broken Vow, Her Ultimate Ascent Chapter 102
Julian's POV: The Woman Who VanishedJack takes the initiative. "I'll drive. You two get in the back and talk.""I'm sorry to impose," Robin Shelby says. "I can sit in the back by myself. You two can carry on in the front.""No, it's okay. Please." I gesture at the rear door, and she reaches for the handle.I squint at her fingers, and my heart slows. Those are hands that belong on Vivian. No, Trinity. I shake my head. Am I going crazy? Grief does strange things to a man, I know that, but this feels like something else.She turns and smiles. "Sir, are you alright?""Sure. After you."She shuffles into the back seat and I follow. The instant her elbow brushes mine, the electricity sparks, and this time it goes off like fireworks inside my brain. She shudders beside me. It's a small, involuntary tremor I feel through the leather of the seat and in the headrest. I hold my breath. My mouth is dry, my body aching and unashamed. What is going on? I can't be fated to one woman last week and
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