Bono's Hope by Victoria Gale

Author:Victoria Gale [Gale, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Deryn Publishing
Published: 2020-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

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We lay in the warmth of our hidey-hole and talked about events that we’d missed in each other’s lives over the years.

“Did you ever go to college?”

“Hope Fisher never got to go,” she said as I glanced at the sky lightening through the opening that led outside. “But Hope Francois managed to stay in one place long enough to gain a marketing degree. Not that she ever got to use it, that honor was passed on to Hope Fox.”

“Hope Fox. I like that, though it doesn’t sound as good as Hope Travers.” My voice trailed at the end when Hope shifted beside me, and I remembered our engagement and all the plans we’d made for our wedding. “Did you always get to keep your first name?” I asked to shift the focus of our conversation somewhere else.

“They said that keeping the same name helps people to adjust better to their new life. If someone called out Hope and I reacted, it would be a little awkward if that wasn’t my first name in whatever identity I had taken on.”

I stroked her hair behind her ear and breathed deeply, wondering how difficult things must have been, but more so, how complicated I had made them now. It was just, being with her, and seeing the Hope I remembered shining through, had taken me back to old times. To a time when it was just me and Hope, and the rest of the world didn’t matter. I guess that time was my Forever Midnight. My moment of happiness and peace, and I wanted to go back there. A part of me wanted to stay in the shelter of these boulders forever. At least then, we could pretend that we were back where we used to be instead of two lost souls who’d found each other for a moment’s respite. “Why the same initials?” I asked, realizing that each of her surnames had stated with the letter ‘F’, in the same way hers had.

“That’s in case you find yourself signing your old name somewhere. Having the same last initial gives you a little time to catch your mistake and remedy it before completing the signature.”

I smiled. “They think of everything.”

Hope sighed at this and propped herself up on her elbow to look at me. “Do they? I was thinking about what you said earlier about all my identities being compromised. You know, when I saw Dolmilo—” she sucked in a breath and shook her head “—as well as feeling sheer terror, I initially dismissed calling the Marshals as they were the only people who could have given away my location to Dolmilo. I can’t help but think that was the case each and every time.”

“If that were the case, one of his men would have tried to kill you before now. Plus, why would the Marshals have been so quick to relocate you the other times?”

Hope scoffed. “Maybe he wants to kill me himself. I cost him ten years of his life. I’m pretty pissed at him for costing me ten years of mine.

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