13
Time was moving way too fast. Hours slipped through my fingers like grains of rice. Before I knew it, the sun had risen and it was time to leave.
I stood underneath the Kissing Tree, taking in the colorful wildflowers covering the field. Would this be the last time I’d ever see anything as beautiful?
I traced my fingers over the slashes in the tree. This was all I had left of Hannah. Memories of her lived in the Sanctuary. Everyone I loved was here. But for them, I had to say good-bye, no matter how difficult it was.
And Lukas, that rat, made it even harder.
He’d taken the news of me leaving remarkably well. When I told him what happened in the temple, what I’d discovered about myself, and that I was going with Cade, he hadn’t batted a lash. He just stared at me with distant gray e
