Chapter 201

** Paige’s POV ** “What… what are you?” The question hangs in the air, and everyone goes still. Ryder’s protective instinct spikes like a cold gust of wind through the bond, but I lift a hand to keep him from stepping forward. I can’t blame her. I’m probably glowing again. My voice comes out steadier than I feel. “I’m still Paige.” She shakes her head violently, scrambling to her feet and backing up until she hits the old sofa, then she collapses onto it. “No. You’re… you’re not. You… your skin just… you lit up like some…some…” “Don’t say glow stick,” Callen mutters. “She doesn’t like that one.” “Or alien,” Remy adds. “Or glittery fairy,” Parker sighs. Annie just stares at me, wide-eyed and terrified of what she doesn’t understand, and I realise… she’s terrified of herself too. For a moment, everything inside me goes still… Greg and Annie had an affair. The version of me from two months ago would have broken. I would have been humiliated, furious, shattered all over again at the idea o