“Maybe you didn’t rob me of my life.” Colvin’s entire body tensed, braced for bruising words. I smiled and felt him relax over me as he waited for my eyes to fall into his. “Maybe you gave me the one I needed, the one I was destined for, instead.” Time swam and crashed, but it couldn’t touch us. Nothing could touch me when he looked at me like that, as if he’d been hunting for treasure his whole life, only to have it land before him in a beautiful earth-shaking mess.
