When You and I Collide by Kate Norris

Author:Kate Norris [Norris, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2021-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

That evening, after Scott finished his work at Professor Schulde’s, they began building the Faraday cage with materials Scott picked up from the hardware store. Winnie wanted to say something that would make him feel better about how he and James had argued that afternoon, but she couldn’t think of anything that would help.

She understood why James wouldn’t just walk away from his work with Hawthorn; the tangle of emotions she saw in him seemed to mirror her own feelings about Father’s work. She recognized the pride, the shame, the protectiveness—dare she say, the love—that had made it feel impossible for her to stop participating in Father’s experiments.

But she could no more explain any of this to Scott than she could have made James understand that he not only could, but must, escape Hawthorn’s project. Winnie hadn’t realized escape was necessary herself until it was too late. Things always seemed bearable—until they weren’t. James would have to come to the realization by himself, or not at all.

She could only hope that for him, it wouldn’t take the same sort of tragedy it had taken her.

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