![]() ![]() He was tall, and probably strong, and maybe. Long, graceful fingers and rich dark skin that made Wylan guess he was Zemeni. They looked like they had been treated with a lot of care. Once Wylan stopped panicking over being armed and actually took the time to look at them, he couldn’t help but admire the two pearl-handled revolvers his soulmate apparently carried with him. So this was where Jesper lived, in the area of Ketterdam known as the Barrel.Īs much as Wylan told himself not to dwell on sentimental notions of what could happen between them, he kept silently repeating the name. He did his best to memorize the route as they walked, in case he needed to escape.Īlone at last inside the untidy room, he collapsed on the thin bed and stared up at the worn ceiling. Under the pretense of being too dizzy to walk on his own, Wylan managed to convince his soulmate’s friends-allies?-to not only get him away from the gunfight, but also take him to the place where “he” lived. Ghezen knew it was bad enough just to be stuck with him as a soulmate. In twenty-four hours, they’d switch back to their proper places, but he didn’t want to leave his soulmate a mess to deal with. Getting shot would be bad anytime getting shot while in his soulmate’s body would be worse. Why did he have a soulmate who got into shootouts? He didn’t know a thing about his soulmate’s life, who he could trust, or why people were shooting at him. He didn’t want to do this, but his soulmate might have enemies who would try to take advantage of him if they knew the truth. Wylan nodded and clutched the gun tightly in order to hide how much his hands were shaking. ![]() “Just keep your head down until we’re out of this.” “I…” Telling the truth seemed like the most obvious answer, but if his soulmate was in some sort of dangerous situation, maybe it wasn’t a good idea to let anyone realize he was someone else. Everything about this was so disorienting. “No.” The deep voice coming from his own mouth startled him into falling silent for a moment. “Jesper!” The boy who had called out to him a moment ago looked even more concerned than before. Most people in the world had a soulmate, but… Yet he’d grown up believing it would never happen to him. Of course he knew about how soulmates switched places for a single day to each spend a day in the other’s life. The world blurred around him as his breath caught in his throat. Apparently whoever just shot at him, he’d been shooting back at, but that didn’t make any sense. He looked down and saw unfamiliar fingers wrapped around the handle of a gun. ![]() “You okay?” An unfamiliar boy dropped down alongside him. What- what was going on? He’d been on his way to his room after a disastrous tutoring session a minute ago, but suddenly he was… He yelped and dropped into cover behind a stone wall. ![]()
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