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Chapters (36)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Introduction
  4. “Two is the beginning of the end.”
  5. Wendy
  6. Hook
  7. Wendy
  8. Hook
  9. Peter
  10. Tinker Bell
  11. Hook
  12. Wendy
  13. Wendy
  14. Hook
  15. Peter
  16. Wendy
  17. Peter
  18. Hook
  19. Peter
  20. Wendy
  21. Peter
  22. Wendy
  23. Peter
  24. Wendy
  25. Hook
  26. Wendy
  27. Wendy
  28. Tinker Bell
  29. Hook
  30. Hook
  31. Wendy
  32. Wendy
  33. Tiger Lily
  34. Also by Evelyn Montgomery
  35. About the Author
  36. Acknowledgments

Stepping forward, his eyes hold mine sternly as he says, “You give me the chance to prove to you that I am better than him, and I’ll fucking prove it. Every damn time. All I’ve ever wanted was you, Tinker Bell,” I hear Tiger Lily shift restlessly behind me on her feet at his confession, and it pains me because I know why she’s so edgy. But I let the poor bastard in front of me go on, hoping it fuels her vengeance as much as mine. “You give me a chance to rule at your side, and I’ll help you take down Hook. Do what you must, but don’t harm Wendy.”

Again, what the fool doesn’t know…

“Then it’s a deal,” I smile. He gives me a curt nod and my need to finish what we once started grows.

“Good,” I exclaim, turning Tiger Lily’s way and giving her a sympathetic smile, reassuring her with my gaze that the end game is still the same.

The poor fool in front of us is just a steppingstone to get there. With a heavy sigh, I start for the door with a grin.

“I do love playing tricks, and Wendy was always my entertainment.”

Chapter 7

Hook

“Would you send me to school, and then to office, soon I should be a man?” Peter inquired craftily.

“Very soon.”

“I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things,” he told her passionately. “I don’t want to be a man. O Wendy’s mother, if I was to wake up and feel a beard!”

Peter & Wendy

- J. M. Barrie

In the early morning hours, after my inflicted self-torture down memory lane, I lazily scrape a razor across my face and watch my eyes darken the entire time in the mirror. Memories, horrors, nightmares I’ll never escape rush through my mind as I stare at my reflection. The blade presses into my skin harshly, drawing a slow trickle of blood from underneath the flesh. I smile as it slides down my cheek and drops into the basin of the sink. It turns the water crimson as I shake off the shaving cream and rinse the blade. My mind turns numb for only a second as I rid myself of any evidence that I too, eventually grew older than I ever thought I would.

No one knows. No one has seen this part of me since I came back to Neverland. And that is exactly the way I’m going to keep it. My secret. One I will undoubtedly take to the grave.