The silence in the cave was deafeningly loud after my remark.
I steeled myself for what was to come because I knew it would. I saw by the way their eyes narrowed and how their stances changed. Perhaps it had nothing to do with my crude comment and with the fact that I’d disobeyed a direct order from them, which was to show respect.
“You do have a death wish,” Kyle said, advancing.
I kept my lips sealed, but my eyes were on his face. I wondered if the Vivian in me would have said such things. No, I doubted it. She would’ve shown respect. She would have begged. It was what she did that terrible night, when she thought Caspian would have professed his love for her. She showed respect. All she wanted was to go home.
Either way, she ended up dead.
Kyle kicked my side and I went crashi
