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“Leo?” She whispered. She did not believe it. She had to be hallucinating.
“Yes, my darling sweetheart. It is me. I swam after you. I could not let you go. I would have let myself drown before I gave up looking for you.” Leo gushed between his tears.
“Leo?” Ana was sobbing suddenly. “Why?” She was shivering, crying, and panicking. Why did Leo love her so much that he would die for her?
“Because I love you, Ana. You are my soul mate. I am so thankful I found you” And he picked her up and held her close, pressing his lips against hers again. He could feel her shivering. But her eyes were closed. And then Ana parted her lips, and his tongue entered her mouth. But suddenly, she was coughing and shivering again.
Leo pulled her up into a sitting position worriedly and massaged her back. “Did you swallow water?” She nodded. “How is your back? He asked.
Ana did not know. She looked down at her legs and struggled a little to move them. They moved a few inches without pain, but after about five inches, pain shot through her back. “It still hurts. I haven’t tried to stand, and I barely crawled onto the rock.” she gasped. “And my right ankle.” She pulled off her sock and pointed at the bumps, bruised and bent. “She broke it.” She whispered.
Leo studied it. He was sure she was right, in which case she could only walk with crutches. Then the issue was still her back. Perhaps the woman twisted it, or she had a few damaged discs and not a permanent injury.
Ana’s voice brought his gaze back to her face. “Are we just going to die on this rock?” She cried.
Leo hugged her, “no, baby girl, no, we aren’t going to die.” He held her till the tears stopped. Then he pointed. “The beaches are that way. I can see them; we went close to ten miles from where we started. There was a mini tsunami. I am not sure, but it pushed you away to the rock, and by the time I came to the rock, it flowed back. That is why we got so separated. But I reached you eventually. That is all that matters.” He kissed her.
“Leo. How are we going to get home?” She whispered to him. “Remember the EMP? There will be no more cars. How are we going to get home?” She started crying again.
“Ana, don’t cry so much. I know you are scared. I am too, but I have no water to give you. We do not have food. We are in the middle of the ocean. But we are alive. So many people are not.” He kissed her.

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“I was thinking about two words.” She replied, warming to the topic. “It’s the band that was playing in your truck that night.”
“What night?” He had no idea to what she was inferring. It couldn’t be tonight as there had been no music in his truck. And he had been gone for eight weeks, so it had to be the few weeks before Blake had come home. The only other time she had been in his truck had been the night he had hit her. He couldn’t remember a song from that night. But he couldn’t remember any other nights they had been driving. It was summertime and the nights came late.
“The night you saved my life.” She glanced at his face then, meeting his eyes. Darren stared back. She did mean the night he had hit her. That was so long ago, much longer than the almost four months it had been.
“I am sorry, Lea. I don’t remember what song or band I had on my stereo that night.” He finally muttered when she didn’t speak again. And he honestly didn’t.
First, the figure appeared on the road. Darren had swerved to miss it. Nevertheless, there had been the squeal of tires followed by the god-awful impact. Darren had shifted his vehicle into park and jumped out. He thought he had hit someone high on drugs or maybe someone who had been drinking too much.
But then he had turned the black-clad body over and had suffered two shocks. The first had been the undisputed fact that it was female. The hair and hood had covered the truth, but the clothes were torn and pulled back to reveal a bra. Darren could already see blood seeping out. But then he pulled back the hair and hood to expose the second shock. It was his neighbor, the girl he had liked for so long. He had seen her that day a few hours before walking her dog. He had walked himself out to the road to check the mail, hoping she would glance his way. But she hadn’t. Darren had stood there silently watching her till she was out of sight.
He had been furious at himself then and hadn’t eaten dinner. Instead, he had turned on the TV and hadn’t been able to focus on anything. Hours had gone by, and finally, hunger got the best of him, and he had gone to taco bell at 10 pm and stuffed himself full of tacos. He had headed home after and somehow had struck the very girl he had been unable to speak to earlier.

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“Can I help you find something?” His voice asked. I was almost positive it was him.
“I don’t -” I began to say. But I couldn’t think of a thing to say after. I lifted my head enough to check the name. Sure enough, it was Erik.
“Miranda?” He asked, and he ducked his head to see into my eyes. He instantly looked concerned. He reached out a hand towards me. “Do you need help?” He asked softly.
“I need… I wanted….” I stumbled over my words. I gulped. I knew it. I couldn’t get my words out. I took a step back and tripped a little. Erik made a swift movement that was just a blur to me; he was standing on my right side and had slipped his arm around me. I was shaking so badly, but I felt the butterflies slam against my insides so violently that I felt sick.
“Look, why don’t you sit down.” He whispered. He was guiding me to the back area of the store. It was the “garden” area of the store. There were a couple of plastic chairs placed along the glass window side of the narrow room. “Here, just settle down here.” I sat but jumped when he appeared crouched before me, peering into my eyes. Yes, both eyes; I had let go of my hood when he had wrapped his arms around halfway to lead me to the chair.
“Miranda, who did this to you?” He asked gently; he lifted a hand and pulled back my hood. He could see my complete injury now.
“A guy,” I gasped. I blinked and realized I was crying.
“What is his name?” His voice held a hint of anger, almost wrath.
“Stan, but he isn’t from here,” I closed my eyes, trying to get the tears to stop.
“Do you know his last name?” I realized he had my hand now—my right hand, not my left with the ring.
“I don’t remember.” My eyes popped open, and I sobbed.
“Miranda.” He was speaking softly again. “Don’t cry. I will tell the guy I am working with I need to get off now. I will be right back. We can leave by this exit. Just stay right here.”
Now I thought about leaving before he could come back and running out the door. I did think about it. But when I thought about standing and leaned forward, I saw spots, and my ears began to buzz. I closed my eyes and tried to push myself into a standing position, but my shoulder gave a great pop, and I let out a little cry and fell back into the chair. I would have to wait for Erik. After all these years, I was finally stuck, unable to run away to hide.

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Silence reigned for several moments. Sleep slowly began to overtake her again. Hovering on the boundary of a dream, she felt someone sit down on the other side of the bed, the side by the window. She did not move, but the feeling of security washed over her again in a surge.
“You’ll be okay.” The whisper came to her ears, too low for her to hear. It came from above her and behind her.
“How can I be certain?” She asked, or thought, she was unsure. Sleep was so imminent. “You’ll leave again, and I will be alone.” She let out an enormous sigh; her eyes were closed. She did not want to open them. She did not want to move to check if someone was behind her. She was too tired.
“I’ll stay right here till dawn.” His voice replied. “I won’t leave you.”
“What about after dawn? Then you’ll go.” She spoke. Sleep had wholly engulfed her. She was so exhausted.
“I won’t be far away. I’ll know when you need me.” She felt something brush her hair. In her mind, it was her protector’s strong hand, and he was behind her, leaning over her.
“What about Matthew?” She let awareness go. She could barely remember where she was. She was not even sure she was speaking. Did she think these phrases?
“Matthew can’t harm you. I’ll be here.” The hand lightly brushed against her again but did not leave. Katherine fell into a deep untroubled rest. She was safe, for now, until the dawn. She could rest and not worry about tomorrow.

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The stable was quiet and deserted. At first, Leo feared someone had taken all the horses, but as he carried Ana deeper into the stables, he realized a few remained. They looked at all of them. A few horses were spooked, and others were sick from a lack of food and water. But they found two probable rides.
“Let the other horses out, Leo. Please put me down and open all the cages.” Ana was emotional. The horses would starve to death if left locked up. Free, at least they had a chance.
Leo understood and opened the stalls one by one. Then he returned to Ana. He had set her near the first potential steed. “What do you think? Is he the horse to carry us to Williams?” he whispered and kissed her forehead.
Ana smiled “he is a very calm horse. I think he might be. But let me see the other horse. You still must find the saddles and reigns.”
Leo agreed and left her near the second horse. He found the items needed in a small room near the back of the building. He remembered the process for saddling, but it had been years, and asked Ana. She confessed to riding barebacked most of the time when growing up. “But I shouldn’t now, with my injuries.”

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She and Darren sat in a corner as far away from the other people as possible. She leaned towards him, holding up the ID and medical card. “You still carry these around? “She asked.
He shrugged, attempting not to make a big deal out of it. “You gave them to me. I’m not going to throw them out. “The truth was he had never taken them out of his wallet. At night he would look at her picture from years past and the images on his phone. It was all he had for eight weeks. Without them, he wasn’t sure if he could have slept.
Lea gave them back to him. “I want you to keep these. I don’t have anything to put them in, like a purse or wallet. But I want you to keep them forever.”
Darren took them, scanning her face. “How do you feel?”
She squeezed her eyes close, trying to focus on her stomach. “I don’t know about the same. There’s no pain. “She sat there for a few moments trying to feel something in her lower stomach.
He still held her right arm linked through his. He took her right hand in his right hand and kissed it.
She opened her eyes, recognizing the gesture. It hurt her; she wished she could go back to that time in the hospital where Darren had been so sweet, and she hadn’t screwed everything up yet.
“What are you thinking?” He asked her, gazing into her eyes. They look better than they had while communicating in the house. But she still looked exhausted and scared. Every time a door would open, she would jerk her head to glance at who was entering or exiting.
“I was just wishing,” She replied, feeling tears stinging the back of her eyes. “I could go back in time to before.” She choked on the last word and stopped speaking. She closed her eyes, telling herself she had cried enough for one day.

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