All the Colors of the Dark — Chapter 249

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They lay side by side in the darkness in a mirror of before.

“You can’t be here,” she said, and there was something frantic in her words. “But I’m glad that you are.”

The rain eased enough so that he could hear her breathe in his ear.

“I’ve been searching for a long time.”

“I stayed here. Right here. I was born in this house, and it looks grand, but it’s falling apart, and there’s no money to fix it up like it once was. But I knew if I moved I’d never see you again. So I begged him to let us stay.”

He clutched her hand like they weren’t strangers, like they knew where

each other had been.

“You’re real,” he said.

“You were my dreams and my nightmares. I’ve lived this moment a thousand times, but it was selfish, and you have to go.”

He shook his head, felt that fire still burn inside. “Why?”

She squeezed his hand so tight. “In case my father finds you.”

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