Chapter 6

TobyI walked toward Victoria with a million thoughts swarming my mind. I’d spent so much time and energy searching for her, and then the moment my mind was elsewhere, she just appeared.

It had been so many painful years we’d been apart, especially given how we’d been ripped from each other’s arms. The hope of ever seeing her again had all but vanished for a long time.

Yet there she sat, like any college freshman in orientation. She was anything but ordinary. And she certainly hadn’t been born anywhere near the time her classmates had been, though she didn’t appear any older. My pulse drummed in my ears as I headed her way. When she’d looked at me, I saw a flicker of recognition surprise, really but nothing more.

What had they done to her?

How would I keep myself from picking her up, swinging her around, and giving her such a passionate kiss that her toes would curl? She was alive. Alive. And right in front of me.