The Anatomy of Wanting Him
The three of us were a triad of wreckage—a disgraced surgeon, a hacker, and a girl who had just watched her mother try to murder her father.
"I didn't get myself back, Seven," I said, pulling my hand away. "That version of Patricia died the second I stepped into that drawing room. I don't know who this woman is."
"She's the one who survived," he said firmly.
We drove in silence for hours. When we finally pulled into the gravel driveway of the cottage in Normandy, the air was salt-thick and cold. Charity got out of the car first. She stood in the wind, her long coat billowing around her legs, looking less like a victim and more like a soldier returning from a war she hadn't wanted to fight.
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