Present Day
Kaitlin’s POV
“You can what?” She asks speechless and I sit up, taking a quick look around. “I can read it.” I say and notice I am lying on a hospital-type bed with a heart rate monitor and an IV drip. Other than that, we are in a seriously run-down and disgusting room filled with books and loose papers. I understand what Sophie meant when she said she was amazed it survived.
She tries to help me, and I wave her off, “I told you I was visiting a relative. I wasn’t lying. This book, I think we were meant to find it.” I stroked the pages softly. “When I was rejected, I went to a dark place, it was mainly the reason I took off. Well, that I believed I took off. Anyway, I imagined my favorite place inside my mind where Annika and I could be side by side. We bonded a lot during t
