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  I was starving, but I fought the pangs of hunger in order to avoid a confrontation with Thomas or Elizabeth. The lightning was blowing up the sky with its echoing radiance, submitting only to the subsequent rumbles of thunder that attempted to shake my core. Nothing would anymore. I lost Samantha. I’d now lost Soph. My hands crawled through my hair, grasping the roots to numb my brain and avoid further reflection.

  “I’ve been standing in your doorway for five minutes,” Thomas muttered, snapping me from the indulgence of pity. “We need to talk.”

  “I’m done talking to you, Thomas.” My aching eyes returned their gaze to the flashing waves of heat over the water.

  “Are you trying to kill yourself, Jameson?”

  My head turned to glance at the man interrupting my solitude, “What are you talking about?”

  He nodded to the window and crossed his arms before replying.

  “You’re sitting on the window seat in the storm.” His arrogant tone was exhausting. “Looks to me like you’re trying to lose your battle with the lightning.”

  “Maybe I am,” I lied, returning to the vague reflection of me in the window, hoping he would give up and leave me alone.

  All I wanted was to close my eyes and think of Soph. If I squeezed them tightly and focused on the pouring rain, I could faintly make out her giggle. I could taste the breeze on the beach when we asked each other too many questions. Pass. She always smelled like lavender. It was adorable how she hated people. Hated them. I understood why, but somehow she let me into her bubble…and I popped it.

  “Listen,” Thomas barked, “I spoke with Simon Bellini again.”

  “Seriously, Thomas, screw yourself. Stop coming in here to tell me about her!” I stood from the window seat, hurling my body toward the heaping blankets on my bed, but Thomas’s fingers quickly flew around my bicep, clenching my muscle beneath his painful grasp.

  “Listen to me,” he snapped. “Simon has a file on you from the Department of Justice. Did you know that? I bet you didn’t, and all the while you’ve been running around with his niece. That’s two people who have an in to your identity, Jameson.”

  “He doesn’t know shit.”

  “Not yet. The file is small, basic…you’re right. But when I met with him on Sunday night, Jameson, he showed me some things.”

  Thomas released his grasp of my arm, confident that his game would keep me in my place. My eyes drifted to the white marks against my skin left by his painful hold and then returned to his tanned face. It didn’t slip by me how his lips twitched into a proud sneer while he continued.

  “Someone at the DOJ is sending Simon bits and pieces of some puzzles around here. It’s only a matter of time before it’s all out there.”

  “He’s a good guy, Thomas. He could know everything and keep it confidential. Sophia trusts him.”

  “Agreed.” He nodded, crossing his arms. “But that’s just one more person who doesn’t need to know.”

  A crack of thunder tore the sky apart while we stood like statues in my bedroom. When the blinding lightning faded away, Thomas retreated toward my bedroom door.

  “Elizabeth has dinner when you’re ready,” he said from the doorway. “Come and eat. I’m sure you’re starving.”

  “I don’t want anything.”

  Except Sophia Reid.

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  Acknowledgements

  I want to acknowledge the creative souls who have followed this journey with me from the beginning. You beautiful, marvelous, supportive ladies have continued to inspire and motivate me from start to finish. You know who you are and I thank you for everything you have done to support me. You will always have a friend, fan, and soul sister in me.

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  About the Author

  Fueled by coffee and rainy days, shelves of books consuming her home in the Pacific Northwest, and a vivid imagination, Fiona writes about love because she believes the world needs more of it. She could spend eternity lost in a story, taken into someone’s thoughts while she is left lingering there long after the pages have turned. Fiona works to meld themes in the current world and spin them into stories of longing, determination, and hope. Her characters are relatable and relevant, as they battle their own fictional version of existence.