"One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else-closer to them than your closest family. "That’s what I was supposed to say.” he gasped out. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.īut he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again. “Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.
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