“I’m not coming with you,” I gritted out, because the idea of that was just too much. I couldn’t give up my entire life for a girl who had lied to me and manipulated me for months, no matter how captivated I was by her. But maybe helping her was the key to my own survival, the thing I needed to do to break this curse and save my sorry life. And so long as she ended up safe and away from here, I’d deal with what came after.

