Chapter 29 - Maddie
SHOCK WAS PUTTING IT mildly. Everything in my system seemed out of whack, off balance. Too much had happened in such a short amount of time and I was left wondering just how my life got so very crazy.
I was wrapped tightly in Novak’s arms, clinging to him as though he were a ghost and might disappear any moment, as though my holding him was the only thing tethering him to this world.
Which, of course, was ridiculous. Novak was here, flesh and blood. His body was hard and warm, his heart a thundering drumbeat in my ear, his breath feathering across my golden hair. What seemed like only moments before I had thought he was dead. Fully and truly.
I shuddered at the thought.
Imagining Novak bleeding somewhere in a ditch was one of the worst things I’d ever conjured in m
