Chapter 150

The whoosh of babbling completely catches me off guard, and the tone, changing from relief to disbelief to relief again, and the sheer emotion almost cripples me. He can’t hide any of it from his voice, and the surge of intense feeling that comes with it tells me our link still exists, and I pick up on his even through this form of communication. It chokes me up, the obviousness that he’s missed me and is as broken about my contact as I am. There’s no anger; just complete overwhelm that he can finally hear me in his head. My initial response is to tear up, my throat closes tightly as if it’s going to choke me, and butterflies escape within my stomach and go bashing around my insides, hitting every orifice and organ they can fly at. I'm feeling the same as him, aching with the sudden waterfall of feelings I’ve been trying to fight for weeks. Colton, listen. I don’t want to do this over the link, but there’s a lot, and, for right now, we need somewhere to go, and you need to be there. So