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Present MY SOBS HAD EBBED TO A HOLLOW NUMBNESS WHEN THE DOOR TO THE locker room flung open. For a second, I thought Damyon had found me. My heart petrified into solid stone in the time it took for a bee’s wings to flap. The realization that it was Torin and Keir brought on a wave of relief I had no right to feel. The mixture of competing emotions had me feeling like a puddle of hopelessness pooled on the dirty concrete floor. This was so incredibly bad—the exact opposite of what I’d wanted to happen. I’d just been coming to grips with the fact that it was better for everyone if I disappeared, and now … everything was a complicated mess. Yet my relief at seeing Torin was undeniable. My head screamed at me about consequences, but my agonized body and heart were adamant Torin equaled safe
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