Chapter 291

“Fay, he dated Fiona for years,” Daniel insists. “She was practically family. She was like “his voice breaks a little here, taking my heart with it, “she was like a mom to me. And then poof,” He snaps his fingers in the air to emphasize his point. “Gone.”

“Daniel,” I sigh. “Fiona was…my cousin. She was betraying your dad, reporting back to mine. Telling him Kent’s secrets.”

Daniel goes a little bit pale at this information and turns back to the bar, reaching for his drink. “Okay well,” he murmurs, “that makes more sense then. But still, Fay! He cuts ties. You are not safe, just because you’re sleeping in his bed.”

“I didn’t think I was,” I sigh, and as I say it…I wonder if it’s a lie.

Because honestly, sometimes?

Sometimes that’s the place in the world where I feel safest, the only place that makes sense.

The other night, Kent called me his peace – his refuge. And honestly I wonder if that’s what he is becoming for me as well.

But before I can consider it, I notice that Daniel is sliding out of his chair a little bit, his eyes half–closed.

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from my seat and

insists, yawning and swatting me away a little, looking for

phone off the bar again and dialing the first number in

I see Jerome come through the curtain.

Green,” Jerome says, looking us over fondly as he wanders over to

tucking myself under Daniel’s arm so that he can

at me suspiciously as I stumble a little

my chin proudly and making

three

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him a sad

fill him

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