I stopped running when I reached the same clearing where I had found my dad. I just needed a minute to work everything out. I didn’t even know what half of it meant. It felt like Jackson was confessing that he loved me and that he had told Brodie. If that was true, then how had Brodie ended up hiding in the trees outside my house?
“I came to kill you. To remove temptation for my brother. Except once I had seen you, felt you, I couldn’t stop coming. It was ages before I realised that we could communicate with each other subliminally. I got to know you more with each visit, and the idea of killing you became an impossibility. There was a connection between us that Jackson never had with you. You were always supposed to be mine, not his. I hate that I hurt him, but I can’t change fate.” I t
