“I don't know. I'm trying to contact him. Tom, can you hear anything from her? Tom? Tom!”
On the third call, Tom realized they were calling him. As soon as he heard what Alice had written, he had been seized by a paralyzing panic and every cell of his body had stopped, waiting for someone to tell him that it was all a mistake. A colossal mistake.
“I've felt nothing for days.”
“Do you still have your defenses up?” Corvus asked, gripping his arm hard. The sudden pain woke him from his torpor.
“Yes. I didn't want her to feel any of that shit...” he blurted out. He looked at them, hoping they would understand. “I had no choice. All that pain, that disgust had to be only mine.”
Finally, seeing him so heartbroken and vulnerable, the Legionaries realized there was much more behind the scanty
