“Wait, don’t leave yet—” Garrett reached for her hand and tried to stop her.

Laney shook off his hand and shouted, “Get away from me!”

Before Garrett could respond, she ran out the door with her luggage. “If they want me, then they’ll have to come and get me!”

Garrett rubbed his temples. He knew he couldn’t stop her.

Laney went straight to the Pole Shadow.

The people there hadn’t seen her in weeks, so they all thought that something bad had happened to her. After all, the news that the Burke family wanted her dead had spread some time ago.

“Laney, I think you should leave the country and go into hiding for a while,” someone suggested, their voice riddled with worry.

Laney didn’t want to run away. She had been staying with Garrett for nearly half a month and was bored out of her wits. “It’s

to talk her into

she did

the

That wasn’t like them…

gone eerily quiet, Laney began to look for a place to

one of the hit men when she visited

aimlessly. When he saw that Laney was staring straight at him, he stopped and greeted her casually,

as

shrugged and walked past her, showing no

mission?” Laney followed him and asked curiously. “Don’t

strong man raised his eyebrows and looked at her in confusion. “It’s been a long time since that mission was called off. Your boyfriend talked

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