561 Chapter 561

I continued to beg and plead with her to come back to us. At fifteen minutes, Scarlet's whispers were loud enough for me to detect what she was saying to Cale. "How long will he give it?"

"I don't know." Cale seemed agitated and upset, certainly more connected to my sister than Scarlet. "Not yet."

"Please Cadey, please." I felt as far and as deep as I could, thinking about how I'd had to go so very far into her brain to plant that dream. The clock continued to tick. Cadence still wasn't breathing, and Jamie began to sound desperate. At twenty-five minutes, when Jamie said "thirty," his voice broke. He knew that the chances of her coming back to us now, after this long, were minute at best. He couldn't give up, though. We couldn't give up.

Aaron blew two breaths of air into my sister's lungs, and Jamie started counting again.

Something was different.