Chapter 29

TANIA

"What are we doing here?" I asked Sylvain as I stared down the rocky face of the cliff we were on. We were so high up that the oxygen seemed thinner here—making it difficult to breathe—and the icy breeze whipped around me almost burning my skin.

"You said you wanted to go to the highest cliff and scream for everyone to hear that you've gotten your wings back," he nonchalantly shrugged and sat at the edge with his legs flailing feebly over the cliff, "this may not be the highest cliff but it will have to do."

I remembered telling him those words—it was one of the last things I remembered before blanking out. The fact that he brought me here just because I had mentioned it was something I wanted to do had my heart swelling two sizes too big for my ribcage. It pained. Knowing that he would do something like that to make me happy made me elated but it also gave me a bucket load of pain.

I wasn't sure how he did it. He must have been a smoother talker than I had pegged him for if h