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

fine,” Daniel insists, yawning and swatting me away a little, looking for

murmur, grabbing his phone off the bar again and dialing the first

minutes later, I smile as I see Jerome come through

over to the bar, his hands tucked

under Daniel’s arm so that he can lean on me. “Mrs. Green

looking at me suspiciously as I stumble a

raising my chin proudly

whispers to me, curious and concerned. “The three of them

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make it,” I say, giving him a sad little

fill him in when he needs to

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