Chapter 4

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CHAPTER 4 

Candice

He just stood there, like a statue. His eyes were locked with mine, and I couldn't move. The world around me froze and so did I.

It was impossible.

How was he here?

Was I imagining things?

I blinked and tried to focus my eyes but his face didn't disappear. The light hit him and his features sharpened, showing me every line and contour of his face.

It had to be an illusion.

I didn't want to believe that he was really standing there, looking at me. It couldn't be. I was a thousand miles away, more than a thousand miles.

He was in Thornwood, wasn't he? He had to be.

My heart nearly leaped out of my chest as a hand came on my shoulder. I snapped my head up and found Gideon behind me.

"What is it?" he asked, taking in my expression.

"Nothing." I shook my head and turned my neck around.

My eyes fell onto the same spot, and Knox was gone. He wasn't there. It was just my mind. Just my imagination. I had to convince myself that because that was the only explanation.

"How—did you find someone?" I asked, looking back at Gideon.

His brows furrowed. "Find someone?"

"Yeah. You went off, remember?"

"Oh, yeah," His hand came around my back, and he went behind me. "I did find something."

Before I could turn to him, he bought something in front of me. It was shiny, to say the least, and clearly a diamond. It was hanging from a gold chain.

"Is it—"

"For you." He said, holding the necklace in front of my eyes before bringing it down to my neck.

I turned my hair to the side of my shoulder and let him clasp it on my neck. Once done, I looked down at the diamond and brushed my fingers over it, unsure of what exactly I was feeling at this point.

"Who did you steal it from?"

"Someone."

I looked up at him, trying to gauge whether this was a joke or not. And it wasn't. But that didn't really help with my confusion.

"Why did you do that?" I touched it again and asked. "And how—wait do I even want to know that?"

"No, but it looks nice on. Doesn't it? Better than whoever was wearing it before."

"Someone was wearing it?" My eyes widened. "Did you steal it off a girl's neck?"

He shrugged, "She was drunk. But don't worry about that. It's yours now."

"Gideon," I whispered, grabbing his arm. "It's a girl's."

"So? It's pretty. And you're a girl. It looks better on you, anyway."

His eyes fell on my neck, onto the necklace and he looked at me with the same fascination an animal might show for a shiny object. Oh, right, there was one—a magpie bird.

I couldn't believe it. But at the same time, I should've seen it coming considering something caught his eye just moments ago and it wasn't a girl.

My eyes lingered back to the crowd, to where I saw him—Knox and then back to Gideon.

"Dance with me?" I really could use with a distraction.

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