“And you’re going to have to hold me incredibly still,” he replied as I lifted him to hang above the water before the rift. “You sound like you don’t trust me,” I said. “It’s not about trust. It’s about me getting sucked into the fucking Shadow Realm if you screw up. So don’t screw up, Tory. I have too fucking much to live for.” I snorted as I concentrated on holding him still and Caleb reached out to start stitching the cut between realms back together.
