Lies in Blood
“She turned away.“Don't look at me like that,” she said.“Like what?” I jumped up sat beside her.“Like you're really concerned.”I was really concerned, I thought, but it wasn’t my thought. I reached across and gently smoothed my thumb down her soft skin, seeing the moment in her mind when that barbarian struck her. It wasn’t a hard hit, it wasn’t even hard enough to change the colour of her skin, but it scared her, shocked her, and in that instant, a part of their friendship died. I could feel th...at pain. I had good reason to be concerned. She knew that.“He hit you,” I said, but the words, the feelings that came with them weren’t mine, either. They were Jason’s.“It was a tiny slap,” she said, pulling my hand away. “And I kinda had it coming.”“No.” I almost regurgitated the words, gasping them out instead. “You’ve been through enough. He had no right to touch you that way. I will skin him alive.”The anger I felt in Jason then moved me outside his body, but I heard everything, saw everything the way he saw it in what was obviously a dream he was having—all the way down on the second floor, tucked up tightly in his bed.MoreLess
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