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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boy,” I laugh, jumping up from my seat and

swatting me

his phone off the bar again and dialing the first number in his recent

as I see Jerome come through the curtain.

Mrs. Green,” Jerome says, looking us over fondly as he wanders over to the bar, his hands tucked neatly in his

up and tucking myself under Daniel’s arm so that he can lean on me. “Mrs. Green held

looking at me suspiciously as I stumble a

my chin proudly and making him laugh.

me, curious and concerned. “The three of them came home and it was…a lot

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

fill him in when he needs

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