![]() ![]() “Don’t you want to eat first? Or shower?” “You need to start slowly you should eat something-” “Please,” he says, gripping my shoulders. “What happened? What’s happening with the battle-?” “Warner.” My eyes are frantic on his face. I’m off-balance, unsteady I still feel as though my legs are anchored to this bed and I’m suddenly unable to breathe, seeing spots and feeling faint. Where are the girls what happened to the girls and where is Anderson and the war and oh God what’s happened to Adam and Kenji and Castle and I have to get up I have to get up I have to get up and get out of bed and get going They helped him save me because he’s the only one who can touch me now, the only person in the world who’d have been able to transfer their healing power safely into my body. They were there too, the healer twins, they helped Warner. He stares until I’m blushing and I decide I hate him a little and then he shakes his head. ” I hesitate, touching the hem of the shirt I’m wearing. It must’ve been him.īut when I glance down at my body I realize I’m wearing clean clothes, no blood or holes or anything anywhere and I wonder who washed me, wonder who changed me, and worry that might’ve been Warner, too. ![]() He was tender and kind and gentle and he saved me, saved my life. I remember him last night-it must’ve been last night-I remember his face, remember him lying next to me in the dark. I study his face and analyze his patient, earnest tone. I needed to pretend everything was back to normal and I was running out of time.” “No one knows you’re alive.” He turns to look at me. “I had to hide you.” He exhales, looks up at the wall. “Then why did you bring me here?” My voice is starting to break and I’m struggling to keep it steady. ![]() “Juliette, please, I’m not going to hurt you-” “What am I doing here?” Panic, panic terror clouds my consciousness. My heart is racing and I’m inching away from him, hitting my back against the headboard, clutching at these sheets, trying not to stare at the chandelier I remember all too well. I’m finally aware of the familiar foreignness of this room and I’m quickly seized by a panic that screams I did not wake up where I fell asleep. If I focus, I can relive the exact moment it happened the pain: so intense, so excruciating I’ll never be able to forget it. Warner’s father put a bullet in my body and I can still feel the echoes of it. I’m breathing and blinking and feeling human and I know exactly why. I’m tired and weak from hunger, but other than a few general aches, I seem to be fine. I have to close my eyes to steady the sudden dizziness, but I force myself to remain still until the feeling passes. I pull myself into a seated position and Warner shifts to accommodate me. His shirtsleeves are folded, pushed up past his elbows. I notice he’s wearing a white button-down, half untucked into his curiously unrumpled black slacks. I’m unsure of my voice, of the hour and this day, of these words leaving my lips and this body that contains me. He stares, unblinking, chest rising and falling. Aaron Warner Anderson is bent over me, his worried eyes inspecting me, his hand caught in the air like he might’ve been about to touch me. The small hand of a clock taps me at one and two, three and four, whispering hello, get up, stand up, it’s time toĪ sharp intake of breath and I’m awake but not up, surprised but not scared, somehow staring into the very desperately green eyes that seem to know too much, too well. My legs feel full of sand and stapled together, my mind overflowing with grains of indecision, choices unmade and impatient as time runs out of my body. He tells Juliette he loves her and informs her that Anderson plans to attack civilians soon.My seventeen years have collapsed and buried me from the inside out. She admits that she doesn’t hate Warner anymore, which pleases him. She continues to meet with Warner, learning more about him and seeing a series of terrible scars on his back and several tattoos on his body. Castle later asks Juliette if it’s true that Warner can touch her, and she admits that it is and realizes the significance of this: Warner also has Energy. He mocks Adam for begging for Juliette’s love, which enrages Adam. Warner, led by Castle, encounters Juliette and Adam in the hallway. She feels anxious about her increasing closeness with Warner, considering it a betrayal of Adam. ![]() He quotes from it extensively, which makes Juliette feel exposed. She visits Warner, who reveals he has Juliette’s notebook, which she used as a journal while in the psychiatric facility (where she was held at the beginning of Shatter Me). Back at Omega Point, Juliette is assigned the mission of interrogating Warner, which she dreads, particularly now that she knows he is Adam’s brother. ![]()
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