Chapter 40

Take me away?

“I’m sorry,” I say. “I think I’m just surprised to see you.” I still don’t know how he even knew to find me here. I haven’t seen this man or spoken to him in years. “What do you mean, ‘take me away?”” I ask.

He shrugs. “I’m thinking you might want to not be fought over like a scrap of meat for a while.”

He’s strong and handsome, and, I suspect, very accustomed to getting what he wants, at least from females. “But why? Why

me?”

to know that I always had a

What? No.

absolutely news

It’s why you haven’t seen me

having a hard time keeping up with all of this. And seeing you

He grins again. “But I’m not shy. And I know he never valued you. Not

lot, but those visits stopped shortly after

once, what happened to Brian because he used to hang out and be a fixture

happened at the Council

seek me out. But I’m still not clear on how he knew to find me. Here. In a

break out of here for a bit?” he

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