“There’s the lightbulb,” Theo jokes, oblivious to the plethora of epiphanies slamming into me like a fifty-car pile-up. Why Phoenix’s hatred for me seems to run so deep for no reason. Why his image of me was tainted from the moment we met. Why he wants me nowhere near Kason. Yet the most significant being…why my body felt familiarity in his touch when he left me chained to my bed. It was because my body subconsciously remembered it.
