I’ll never forget Aida’s screams and Patrick’s face when the Officials took me away, or how they kept reaching for me and for each other. The Society knew what they were doing when they Matched Patrick and Aida. If I’d been the one Matched with Cassia, if I’d known I could have eighty years of a good life and most of it spent with her, I wonder if I would have had the strength to try to take the Society down. Xander did. I walk up the pathway and knock on the door of the house where he used to live.
