Deep, dark unearthly black. I hadn't told anyone yet, but the color kept streaking across my mind at the oddest moments. When it did, my skin shivered pleasantly, and it was as if I could feel the color tracing a finger tenderly along my jaw, tipping my chin up to face it directly. I knew it was absurd to think a color would come to life, but once or twice, I was sure I'd caught a flash of something more substantial behind the color. A pair of eyes. The way they studied me cut to the heart.
Becca FitzpatrickI didnโt accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.โ I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. โAre you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?
Becca FitzpatrickOne more thing. I sold the mustang. Too conspicuous. Don't get too excited, but I bought you a little something with the extra cash. I heard you've had your eye on a Volkswagen. The owner is dropping it by tomorrow. I paid for a full tank of gas, so make sure she delivers.
Becca FitzpatrickI got a new job.โ Patch locked eyes with me, and I warmed in a lot of places. In fact, I was dangerously close to feverish.
Becca FitzpatrickSee, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond.
Becca FitzpatrickMy legs are falling asleep,โ I blurted. It wasnโt a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. โI could solve that.โ Patchโs hands closed on my hips.
Becca FitzpatrickPatch reached for my hand and pushed my dad's ring off the tip of his finger and into my palm, curling my fingers around it. He kissed my knuckles. "I was going to give this back earlier, but it wasn't finished." I opened my palm and held the ring up. The same heart was engraved on the underside, but now there were two names carved on either side of it: NORA and JEV. I looked up. "Jev? That's your real name?" "Nobody's called me that in a long time.
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