“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.

away. She had been staying with Garrett for nearly half a month and was bored out of her wits. “It’s okay. I’ll stay vigilant. I’ll kill whoever tries to kill

so confident, no one tried to talk her into

period, she did whatever she’d normally

Did the Burkes just

That wasn’t like them…

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

hit men when she visited a

trouser pockets. He seemed to be wandering the street aimlessly. When he saw that Laney was

eyes went as wide as

shrugged and walked past her, showing no

him and asked curiously. “Don’t

that mission was called off. Your boyfriend talked to the Burke family himself and asked them to let you go, so they did. Didn’t you know

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