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will come near you—you’ll be an outcast like you’ve always
been! Nothing has changed! You belong with me!”
“She belongs with me.” Adam’s voice could cut through
steel.
Warner flinches. For the first time he seems to be
understanding what I thought was obvious. His eyes are
wide, horrified, unbelieving, staring at me with a new kind of
anguish. “No.” A short, crazed laugh. “Juliette. Please.
Please. Don’t tell me he’s filled your head with romantic
notions. Please don’t tell me you fell for his false
proclamations—”
Adam slams his knee into Warner’s spine. Warner falls to
the floor with a muffled crack and a sharp intake of breath.
Adam has thoroughly overpowered him. I feel like I should
be cheering.
But I’m too anxious. I’m too suspended in disbelief. I’m too
insecure to be confident in my own decisions. I need to pull
myself together.
“Adam—”
“I love you,” he says to me, his eyes just as earnest as I
remember them, his words just as urgent as they should be.
“Don’t let him confuse you—”
“You love her?” Warner practically spits. “You don’t even
—”
“Adam.” The room shifts in and out of focus. I’m staring at
the window. I glance back at him.
His eyes touch his eyebrows. “You want to jump out?”
I nod.
“But we’re fifteen stories up—”
“What choice do we have if he won’t cooperate?” I look at
Warner. Cock my head. “There is no Code Seven, is there?”
Warner’s lips twitch. He says nothing.
“Why would you do that?” I ask him. “Why would you pull
a false alarm?”
“Why don’t you ask the soldier you’re so suddenly fond
of?” Warner snaps, disgusted. “Why don’t you ask yourself