Chapter 53
MAGGIE
Jay held my face in his hands. I’d always seen him as dangerous, seen those hands as weapons. And they were—but he’d used them to save me. The world wasn’t as black and white as I’d imagined it. I didn’t want to fight it anymore.
“I will make it okay,” he said. “I promise you.”
He couldn’t make that promise, no one could, but I loved him for it anyway.
I loved him.
Or I was starting to. There was so much I didn’t know about him, about his childhood, his family, what had led him to Simon, what he liked to do when he wasn’t fighting or teaching. But I wanted to know those things, all of them. The simple things, the normal things, the extraordinary things. I wanted badly to know everything about him.
I stared at Jay Thornton. His eyes were lighter up close, but no les
