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Yes, he was dangerous Yes, he was the opposite of anything I'd ever considered in a relationship, but he was security and I had no more pride left in ain

"I wondered how long it would take you" Cale

The words were said coldly, but relief shot throughwould be okay now I didn't knohy, but I just knew that it would be

There was a pained yip and then the corresponding death cry of one of e tormentors Its cries were closely followed by another's and with a yip of fright I heard the other one take off through the heavy understory growth

My hands holding the pistol had fallen and nurasp My ordeal wasn't over by any ry ainst him as I had been with ry and I didn't fault him for it If he'd been my uncle I could even now have expected the hard backhanded slap that would've knocked iven to my stomach and back by my cousins

Colt wasn't h and mad as I knew that he was I also knew that he'd never hit me

How did I know that?

I just did somehow

If I knew that, then, as I so afraid?

I knew the answer to that too Things had just changed radically I'd essentially just made myself his, when I'd called out to him for help

Despite what I'd done to him he'd come back forall at the same time

All the veneer of society had been stripped away and the truth was that I really was Eve to his Adah or had he come back out of noble ideals alone? He was a far nobler person than I was if that was the case

I hugged myself with my arms and involuntarily shivered as I saw the blurry outline of ly he'd dispatched my attackers with a spear made out of a pole with a knife blade strapped to the end of it This man was truly in his element here in this violent sunken world, even as I was out of mine