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I adjusted my backpack, listening to the voices around me, the train almost here. The moment I boarded, that would be it. No more Coldharbour. No more Riley.
No more promise.
What the fuck was I doing? I’d promised to help him, to prove myself. All this did was shove a coward label across my face.
“I have to go back.”
“The train now arriving at platform one is the 11:08 service to London Waterloo.”
Not for me it wasn’t.
I turned toward the exit, already piling up my apologies.
Rhianna stood a few feet away, wrapped in a long black cloak.
Alone.
“Hello, you.”
I drew the gun Alice gave me, pointing the pistol at her head.
She laughed. “Oh, Drake. Would you shoot a pregnant woman?”
The bottom of my world collapsed. “What?—”
“Yes, it’s yours.”
Someone threw a sack over my head, sticking me with a needle in my back.
I smelled the violet aroma of a sleeping potion.
Pregnant, the word echoed in my skull as I slipped into unconsciousness.
Pregnant…
Mine…
How? She showed no signs of pregnancy at all. Not now and not over the past six months. Anyway, we’d used protection.
Pregnant…
That baby, if there even was one, wasn’t mine. It couldn’t be.
You’re not pregnant!I screamed on the inside, slipping away.Impossible…
Darkness swallowed me.
Chapter 46
RILEY
Ipopped up at the train station on wobbly legs.
“What the hell?” I collapsed, landing hard on my backside.
A train approached the platform, a few people directly ahead of me.
Dad? The shade was my dad?
