Page 73 of One Impossible Moment
Finn dragged a hand over his face, exhaling hard."How long have we been here?"
Copper's mouth thinned."I don't know."
Finn's jaw clenched."Then how do you know all this?Why are you aware when the others aren't?They never question anything.Hell, until now, I never thought anything of living here."
Copper looked down at his hands.For a long moment, the only sound was the storm raging above them.Then he lifted his gaze, meeting Finn's eyes with a look that carried years of unspoken truth.
"Because I met someone a long time ago," Copper said quietly."A woman.She walked down the road into Everstill, just like Kallie did."
Kallie's breath hitched.Finn's grip on her tightened.
Copper continued, voice low."She wasn't from here.She wasn't meant to be here.But she stayed for a while.And I..."He swallowed."I enjoyed her company.More than I should have."
Kallie felt her heart twist."What happened to her?"
"She left," Copper said simply."And I stayed."
He looked at Finn again.Kallie caught the message, silently shared.An understanding.A warning.A truth neither wanted to say aloud.
"There's something about meeting a woman from the other dimension," Copper said softly."It brings our feelings back.Our memories.Our emotions.The parts of us Everstill had taken from us.We start to feel alive again."
Kallie's pulse hammered in her ears.She looked at Finn, and the fear in his eyes mirrored her own.
If Copper was right, she wasn't only upsetting Everstill.She'd changed Finn for the rest of his life.
Before meeting her, he would've been like the others, happy to go about his day, wandering the town.But he could never settle for that life again, even if she left.
Her eyes burned, and she stared at the cement floor.
Her love had ruined him.
Chapter 29
Kallie
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