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?”

have to know that I always had

What? No.

news to

to you. It’s why you haven’t seen me at his

rub my eyes. “I’m sorry. I’m having a hard time keeping up with all of this. And seeing you out of the blue, it’s a shock. A nice one. But…it’s been a minute.”

and I’ve shared too much, I think.” He grins again. “But I’m not shy. And I know he never valued you. Not the way

stopped shortly after

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

about what happened at the

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

you say, want to break out of here for a

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