Releasing 10 (Boys of Tommen, #6)

by Chloe Walsh

“We have eighty years’ worth of tomorrows to spend together.”

It was as if her sister’s death had broken a pivotal part of her mind, and I couldn’t reach her like I used to. The light in her eyes was gone and the change in her personality was as swift as it was contrasting.

“I love you more,” he replied without missing a beat. “I’m going to be with you, Liz,” he added, voice taking on a gruff tone. “When you open your eyes in the morning, my face is the first thing you’re going to see. All day, every day, and every fucking night if I get my way, until school starts in September. Because you are more important to me than anything else in my life. And because there’s nowhere else that I would rather be than right there with you.”

We were so very similar, this deer and me. We were both prey.

“So, I heard the fifth-year girls plotting a scheme called ‘operation binding thirteen,’” she announced, before reeling off a detailed account of the conversation she’d overheard in the bathroom at school.

but I just want you to know that I am so grateful to have had you in my life.” A pained sob escaped her when she said, “I’ll never have a greater friend, Hugh Biggs, or a greater love.”

“I’ll always love you, Hugh Biggs,” Liz said when she rounded the table and stopped in front of me. Inhaling a quivering breath, she leaned down and pressed a kiss to my cheek before whispering, “No matter what.” And then she was gone.