Ashes of Foreverland
Page 28
His legs had become numb. He locked his knees to keep from falling, afraid to reach out, to look inside and see the failure. Of all the fabrications, this was the hardest. This was the most difficult one to piece together.
She’d been through so much. So fragmented.
She was the one that saved the children, that kept their existence in the Nowhere bearable. She was the one, of all of them, that deserved to step out of that tank.
He swallowed and reached. The door swung open.
He fell back half a step and saw only her, standing inside, head bowed.
Candy red hair.
Damp gown stuck to her perfect skin.
Her eyes closed, he watched. He held his breath, vowed never to take another until she—
The eyelashes fluttered.
Big green eyes, vivid in color, sharp in contrast, looked upon the world. Big green eyes seeing it for the first time in what seemed like forever and fell on the young man in front of her.
Jonathan Deer was no longer the green-eyed stranger with the bent nose. He let his true features return, showed his true face. His hair brown, long and curly.
She stepped out and reached up. Her fingers brushed his cheek.
The world blurred through his tears. “Lucinda,” he said.
She whispered in his ear what he’d longed to hear since the day he woke on the island.
“Reed.”
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