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?”

His smile is lopsided and amused. “You have to know that I always had a crush on you.”

What? No.

is absolutely news

you haven’t seen me at

with all of this. And seeing you out of the blue, it’s a shock.

not shy. And I know he never valued you. Not the way he should have, anyway.”

stopped shortly after I married Aaron. Can it

out and be a fixture within our

about what happened at the Council

guess. Or at least why he might seek me out. But I’m still not

to break out of here

place, but I try to stay focused on the conversation. “My father’s funeral is

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