Chapter 41
Honor
SOMETHING HARD AND angular bit into my lower back. My legs dangled off into nothingness. All I could smell was blood.
All I could hear was blood too. A rushing in my ears, as if I’d been transported to the ocean. For a moment, I let myself imagine that’s what had happened. Luke and me in Costa Rica. Sandy shores and scorching sunshine. Seagulls calling while parrots flew overhead....
The squawk I heard, though, didn’t come from a parrot. “What do you think you’re doing?”
Destiny’s voice receded, although her noose still pushed into the skin of my neck and turned my breathing harsh. I blinked against the ocean, opening my eyes to take in something pale and plasticky and printed with pastel replicas of cartoon wolf pups.
Was that a pair of pampers one inch from my nose
