Chapter 54
EVE.
When I ran into Cole this afternoon, my heart almost blew a hole in my chest. For a split second, I thought he was Saint. My brain has been rewired to think that Saint is everywhere. That's what fear does. It gets under your skin until you can't tell the difference between madness and sanity.
It's pathetic how quickly fear becomes a habit.
Seeing Cole was like finding a life raft. The connection we made that first day in school turned out to be a blessing to me now, because he was the only thing keeping me afloat at the moment. I didn't give him a chance to start one of his meandering conversations; I grabbed his arm, muttered something that probably sounded like a bad excuse, and pulled him with me. We didn't stop walking until we were out of Saint's neighbourhood.
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