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Chapter 39

Autor: Eva Green O.
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Thora’s POV

Luke made no response when he shut the door. And he only stood, as though he dared the wrong word would wipe me out of existence.

My silence with him was so terrible that I could have shouted more.

You need not have come, I said at length.

“I know,” he replied. “But I did.”

That answer in itself was everything and nothing simultaneously.

I went to the kitchen, where I needed space, movement. My legs were stiff as they did not believe the ground. Luke was at my heels, but paused a few feet back, to avoid coming too near me, as though he were going up to something delicate, and sharp.

I filled my glass of water, and the hands shook masterfully enough to vex.

You may sit, I said, without turning round.

“I’m fine.”

Of course he was. Luke has always been okay until he was not.

I was standing on the counter and looking at the wall. The note was folded next to my phone, and it was a loaded weapon that neither of us had yet owned.

Did you think I was going to fail to come? he ques
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