Chapter 161

“Everything is crazy, yet all seem to tie together. Even us.” I drop my hands on my lap, still leaning my head against the rest and suddenly so very exhausted with thinking, feeling, talking. Everything is taking its toll, coming to a massive head, and draining what little energy I have left inside me. I’m heavy and weighted down in so many ways, all while his presence is screwing me up, and I want to curl up and shut it all off for a bit. “I knew. About us … the whole witch thing. Something in me; it wasn’t a surprise when we imprinted. It’s like I always knew, yet somehow my brain didn’t know-how. Maybe I have her visions, and somehow, when she bound me, I lost their memory. I can’t grasp it, but it’s like all of this was always out of reach of my fingertips, but I knew it was there. When it happened, it was like déjà vu in a sense.” Colton casts me an apologetic look, and I get that hint of regret, slowly filtering my way as if he’s lifting the wall between us a bit at a time, yet i