Chapter 21

Ava looked up from her phone, where she'd been scrolling through increasingly frantic messages from our classmates. "You really think she could come back? Even frozen like that?" "I don't know," I admitted. "I don't understand any of this well enough to be sure of anything." Mr Blake moved closer to our group, his expression gentle but serious. "Serenity, what you did tonight, stepping in front of that bullet for Thomas, it wasn't just brave. It was transformative. The kind of selfless love that rewrites the rules of the universe." "It didn't feel transformative," I said, my voice barely above a whisper. "It just felt like the only choice I could make." "That's exactly what made it powerful," he replied. "True love isn't about grand gestures or dramatic d

Chapter 22

"The same thing he's always wanted," Mr Blake replied. "To finish what he started. To ensure that the alliance between our families never comes to pass." "But we're not the same people," I protested. "We're not even the same families, really. There's no political gain anymore." "Isn't there?" Lord Ashworth's voice seemed to come from right outside the window now. "Your fathers' law firm is quite successful, I understand. Thomas's inheritance, your family's connections, together, you'd be quite formidable." I shuddered. Even in this lifetime, even as teenagers, we were still valuable enough to be worth killing. "He's been watching us," I realized aloud. "All our lives. Waiting for us to remember, waiting

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