EMBER’S POV
Something moved across his face.
“Ember.”
“She’s got days, Knox. I’m sure you know this already. Days! And I have a thing inside me that pulled my father back from the dead. I’m not going to sit on it and let her die in a clean little hospital room while I learn how to set a dinner table. I won’t.”
“You nearly didn’t come back from it.” His voice drops flat, going the way it had on the runway. “Maurice. Sapphire took you completely — you were gone, Ember. Your eyes, your face, everything. The house was coming apart around us and I couldn’t reach you and I have never in my life been that afraid of anything. I burned my hands getting to you. I pulled you back through something I don’t even have a name for, and I still don’t know what would have happened if it hadn’t worked. A
