“You sound so pessimistic. People are out there looking for him. He has nowhere left to hide and he’s lost almost everything. “
“I lost a lot myself.”
“You have Lucy, and Rachel. You have Frank, and Julie, and the girls who’ll be counting on you now, more than ever,” he says, and then moves his face in front of mine. “You have me.”
The fact that he’s right doesn’t make this small victory any less bitter.
We stand and look at Frank and Sunny waiting for us by the cars. He pulls me tight to him again, and asks, “Do you think you and Frank would want to stay with us until your house is repaired?”
“I think we could live with that.”
This embrace makes up for some of my losses. Paco’s death will make up for more.
‘You realize there is no backing out of our arrangement,’ the cool voice says in my mind as the cat nudges my leg slightly.
I let go of Garrett and take a step back before thinking back at it in my mind, ‘For love and revenge. I think it’s worth it.’
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