Turning Point

Chapter Thirty Seven

I stare at him eyes wide. My mind can only bring up two words.

You're Dead.

But he isn't because he's standing ahead of me, a thin smile playing at his mouth. He is very much alive.

My mind running overtime, as quickly as it emptied. Suddenly I have questions answered, but at the same time, for every question answered, there are two extra in its place. I can't understand. I have never been so confused. And this couldn't have been more impossible.

Only for a few seconds I wonder if I'm seeing things. But the way things fit together quickly throw away any doubt. This is definitely him.

I realise now that it was a puzzle. And I was putting the pieces in the wrong places.

Because only now, do I realise, that it wasn't Lux or me who they were after.

Lux was my bait. And everyone fell for it, far too easily. But that isn't the worst.

The whole time, it was Anakin who they were after, and I was the bait.