Chapter 302

within a moment, I again began sobbing. He wrapped his arms around me into a gentle embrace, the warmth holding me down

in ways that had not occurred for a really long time.

That was it. That scaled the deal. I couldn’t be controlled anymore by Calla.

Later that day, I prepared myself for the meeting. Everything in my head seemed jumbled into a concoction of all sorts of possible outcomes, but one thought remained clear: this would end tonight.

When finally I reached the old quarry, the sun had already dunked below the horizon, stretching long shadows across the jutting rocks and making the place seem even more forbidding.

the edge, casual

was not alone.

wide shouldered with cold, calculating eyes. The very stance of

on me. “Lila,” she purred low, her voice all sugary falseness. “You came.

to hug me as if she has been missing me for decades. or so but i was to deeply concerned to care about the hug as all

my breath hanging in my throat. “Who are they?” I tried to sound confident, but my

“Well baby girl, they are Insurance,” she said.

the matter that brought us here, did you bring Rowan? Because so far I’m

as the magnitude of the trap sank in. Calla wasn’t going after Rowan alone;

Calla snarled, her voice going

clenched my fists inside my jacket pockets, standing tall, and made myself meet her gaze. “He’s not coming,” I said, much softer than I

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