RielleZayden?I mumbled the name like a question, my voice barely a whisper, caught somewhere between shock and a dream I didn’t want to wake from.He was standing right in front of me—tall, broad shoulders heaving with breath, fist still clenched from the punch he’d just landed. My heart flipped in my chest, a wild, painful lurch that made my breath hitch. I’d dreamt of this moment over and over, night after night, lying in that hospital bed or staring at the ceiling in Elsie’s spare room. In those dreams, he came finding me, bursting through the door with that intense look in his gray eyes, telling me it was all a misunderstanding. That he had nothing to do with Linda, that the letter was fake, some cruel trick. That he loved me, missed me so much it hurt, and he’d tear the world apart to get me back.But right now, he was here real, flesh and blood and it wasn’t like the dreams at all.His fist was connected to Lucas’s face, the crack of it echoing in the park like a thunderclap.
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