“Do you even hear yourself right now?” I said, my voice shaking. “You should be panicking, Alexander. You should be as terrified as I am, because if I’m really seeing the future, then that means…”
He looked up at me then, his expression soft. “Then it means we’ll deal with it, okay,” he said quietly. “Together.”
Something about the calm certainty in his tone made my anger falter. His eyes met mine. There was something there...something that told me he had thought about it, that he just didn’t want me to drown in the same fear he was probably feeling himself.
But I wasn’t convinced. I couldn’t be. The image was too vivid, too real.
I pulled away from him slightly, wrapping my arms around myself. “No,” I said under my breath. “I’m not waiting around for this to ‘pass.’ I can’t.”
He frow
