Valerie

‘Impossible’ I wanted to say if my breath hadn't been caught. But it wouldn't feel true even if I wanted it to be.

How else then, would he know that I died?

I wanted to shove him away, but his hold was firm.

“Valerie,” he called out his eyes in the same emotions.

“Answer me. Why did you come here? Is Alistair holding you?” he asked, the same strange sad desperation written all over his face.

This couldn't be happening.

“No,” I breathed out instinctively. I wasn't ...