CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
You hold her in your arms. You breathe in her scent. You feel her skin on yours. It’s so familiar, like a part of you. Like slipping into your favorite sweater.
She smiles. She tells you she loves you.
Kate.
You’ve never been this happy. But when you look into her eyes, they grow wide, fearful. Her mouth stretches into a gaping, silent scream.
She slips from your grasp. She’s falling away. You try to catch her, to get to her, but the darkness around you is thick, viscous. You claw at the air but you’re barely moving.
Desperate, you push and you strain and you reach… and your fingers find hers. You grab tightly. Pull her close. Tell her she’s safe. Nothing can hurt her.
But the scent, it’s different now. The feeling isn’t as familiar. You look into her eyes—they’re
