You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?" June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.

Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.

You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.

Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?