Hailey was my high-school crush, and I never gave up on us though we went our separate ways.
Bleeding out in a chopper downed in battle, I spend my last moments thinking of the night I shipped out when I kissed her and marked her. Tick, tock…Tick.
I wake to find I’m a monster in a stitched-together body and I cannot remember who I am. When I climb the balcony of a house, I find a woman called Hailey grieving over the death of her father.
I think I know her, and her father died months ago, yet he’s the man I was sent to murder. Memories spin and click into place. This is my Hailey.
Somehow, I’ve slipped between worlds and zigzagged past my own death. I will not lose her again.
I carry her out of the rain, pressing kisses on her, everywhere, until she begs for more of my rough handling. Nothing will keep me from claiming her. Not even the demons whispering in my head.
