Chapter 106

Perrin

“Go,” Jesamine says. “Go to her. Now!”

She pushes me out of her bed. I don’t hesitate.

“Lo! LO!”

But doesn’t wait, scurrying down the hall as fast as her aching legs will take her. I know her joints hurt. I spent the better part of this morning giving her entire body a massage.

But she beats me somehow to the lobby– to the front doors. I see her disappear in a blare of red lights as she takes off in the back seat of Charlie’s waiting SUV.

What have I done?

I reach for my phone, trying to call her. It goes right through to voicemail.

I have no choice. I run.

**

The back trails are dark, not yet lit by the morning sunrise. I realize that I have no idea what time it is; Jesamine had kept me company for hours, but it was out of…

Friendship.

I nearly stumble over a tree root in the trail as the thought crosses my mind. Have we really come to that? Are we finally through the stumbling awkwardness of what we once were, and finally turning the corner to something more–

I see the wind