Chapter 19
My heart skipped a beat. Maybe I heard wrong. “What did you just say?”
“Live forever. That’s what Vykens do, as long as their head is still attached, that is. Surely you knew this.” Liam kept moving, his head turning side to side as if he were searching for something. “You’ve got to get back. It’s not safe anymore.”
“Hello? You just dropped a bomb on me. How could I live forever? I’m only half-Vyken.”
Saying that out loud made me feel dirty.
Liam didn’t explain. Instead, he grabbed my arm. “Don’t you feel it?”
“Feel what?”
Faster than I could blink, he whirled me around and pressed my back to him, his arm around my chest.
“Shhh,” he whispered in my ear. “Listen. Concentrate.”
I did as he asked even though the warmth of his body against mine was oddly distracting.
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