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The light came from a round hole ahead of us, its shape not unlike the holes that peppered the
cavern, but largerThis was an entrance, a doorway to a brighter placeMelanie was eager,
fascinated by the concept of more humansI held back, suddenly worried that blindness might
be better than sight?Sorry,? he muttered, so low that I was certainly the only one to hear
I tried to swallow and could notMy head started to spin, but that might have been from
hungerMy hands were trembling like leaves in a stiff breeze as Jeb prodded me through the big
hole
The tunnel opened into a chamber so vast that at first I couldn't accept what my eyes told me
The ceiling was too bright and too high?it was like an artificial skyI tried to see what
brightened it, but it sent down fake cartier watch sharp lances of light that hurt my eyes
I was expecting the babble to get louder, but it was abruptly dead quiet in the huge cavern
The floor was dim compared to the brilliant ceiling so far aboveIt took a moment for my eyes
to make sense of all the shapesThere was no other word for it?there was a crowd of humans standing stock-still and
silent, all staring at me with the same burning, hate-filled expressions I'd seen at dawn
Melanie was too stunned to do anything more than countTen, fifteen, twenty? twenty-five,
twenty-six, twenty-seven?
I didn't care how many there wereI tried to tell her how little it matteredIt wouldn't take
twenty of them to kill meI tried to make her see how precarious our position was,
but she was beyond my warnings at the moment, lost in audra louis vuitton bag this human world she'd never dreamed
was here
One man stepped forward from the crowd, and my eyes darted first to his hands, looking for the
weapon they would carryHis hands were clenched in fists but empty of any other threatMy
eyes, adjusting to the dazzling light, made out the sun-gilded tint of his skin and then recognized
it
Choking on the sudden hope that dizzied me, I lifted my eyes to the man's face
CHAPTER 14
Disputed
It was too much for both of us, seeing him here, now, after already accepting that we'd never
see him again, after believing that we'd lost him foreverIt froze me solid, made me unable to
reactI wanted to look at Uncle Jeb, to understand his heartbreaking answer in the desert, but I
couldn't move my eyesI stared at Jared's face, chanel jumbo uncomprehending
Melanie reacted differently
?Jared,? she cried; through my damaged throat the sound was just a croak
She jerked me forward, much the same way as she had in the desert, assuming control of my
frozen bodyThe only difference was that this time, it was by force
I wasn't able to stop her fast enough
She lurched forward, raising my arms to reach out for himI screamed a warning at her in my
head, but she wasn't listening to meShe was barely aware that I was even there
No one tried to stop her as she staggered toward himShe was within inches of
touching him, and still she didn't see what I sawShe didn't see how his face had changed in the
long months of separation, how it had hardened, how the lines pulled in different directions
nowShe didn't see that the prada gauffre bag unconscious smile she remembered would not physically fit on this
new faceOnly once had she seen his face turn dark and dangerous, and that expression was
nothing to the one he wore nowShe didn't see, or maybe she didn't care
His reach was longer than mine
Before Melanie could make my fingers touch him, his arm shot out and the back of his hand
smashed into the side of my faceThe blow was so hard that my feet left the ground before my
head slammed into the rock floorI heard the rest of my body hit the floor with dull thumps, but
I didn't feel itMy eyes rolled back in my head, and a ringing sound shimmered in my earsI
fought the dizziness that threatened to spin me unconscious
Stupid, stupid,I whimpered at her toldyou not to do that!
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