“You can’t leave, because the sixty-one hours we suffered without you were torture. Pure, unrelenting torture. That’s how long it was, Siren. Sixty-one hours. I counted each and every one of them. It was all I could do—all I could control. I didn’t eat. I didn’t sleep. I searched and I counted. That’s it. For sixty-one hours, I didn’t stop looking for you.” He pauses, just long enough to glare down at me. He’s staring at me so intensely I’m afraid I’ll catch on fire. “I would have searched for a thousand more. I wouldn’t have stopped until I found you. For them. For me. “We can’t go through
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