“It’s a three-and-a-half-hour drive,” Kane said.
“Meet at the trucks at twenty-one hundred hours.” Baruch paused. “Take care of any unfinished business.”
“Kiss your loved ones goodbye,” Ari murmured as the meeting broke up.
“I can’t call Mom and Dad,” I said.
“Write them a letter. That’s what I’m going to do.”
“I’m not writing you one, okay?” I crossed my arms. “Because, no.”
“We don’t need letters. Whatever happens tonight, we’re gonna be fine. We all have each other’s backs.”
Yeah, but I also had Lilith and if the power of her whisperings was relative to her growing strength, I didn’t have much longer before she was free.
“I love you.”
“Love you more,” he said.
“Impossible and ridiculous,” I replied, repeating the phrase our grandmother had always used when we said we loved her
