She knew she was acting a little paranoid. But now that she could no longer rely on the novel as a reference for what would happen next, she felt unmoored, lost in a future she could no longer predict. The sense of uncertainty frightened her more than she wanted to admit.
If something happened to them while they were out of her sight…
That thought alone was enough to make her chest tighten.
After all, Dave's abduction had already proven that the storyline had changed far more drastically than she had anticipated. It had caught her completely off guard. She had always believed that by taking Alice's female lead halo and altering her own fate, any danger that once targeted Alice would simply be redirected toward her instead, something she believed she could handle on her own.
