"To get here. To finish this. You cannot understand what it is like to be empty for so long. To have a hole inside you that nothing can fill. Until now."
She looked at the
spiral with something like love.
"This will fill me. Your power. Your bond. It will make me whole."
"No," I said. "It will make you a copy. A hollow copy of something real."
"Then teach me to be real," she said. "Show me. Let me in."
The
spiral reached for us.
Not with hands. With hunger. A pulling, sucking hunger that grabbed at the thin thread of our bond and tugged. I felt my connection to Noah stretch. I felt my connection to Neal thin. The
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