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"Walker?"

I nodded

"He’s in this very hospital"

Alarm leapt within me I’d never been afraid of anyone in my life--well, besides Reyes--but I recoiled at the mere h he had taken so very valuable away froance Either way

"He won’t be going anywhere or hurting anyone ever again"

I was certain he was right, but for some reason, that didn’t help ertips over the ar ever so slightly

"I’o to such lengths when he cahts screeched to a halt, and I took ato say "What do youhis eyes in regret, "but this I just had no idea And since I was bound--"

"What do you aze and like a baseball bat hitting od, I’m so slow sometimes, I astound myself"

"Dutch, if I had known…"

"You set me up"

He bowed his head, pulled away froly slow can one person be?" I tried to sit up, but pain shot through h, my face It was still too early, even for me

"I didn’t knohere he was or how to find hih cages, he’d co with you when that happened I followed you everywhere Then I lost track of you"

"Reyes, he threatened Cookie and Amber He would have killed them"

"Dutch--"

"This wasn’t just about ht for a er spiked within hio," I said, the side of o after hih his hair in frustration "I thought he was dead, just like the rest of the world"

"Then how did you find out otherwise?"

He seemed embarrassed "The fact that I’d spent ten years ofI didn’t do was a source of great entertain me Until they told o after hi to be with you every step, but your boyfriend was on your ass everywhere you went If I’d just hung out with you, I would have been arrested"

The irony of the situation was not lost on me First my father, then Reyes When would I learn? What would it take for me to see the true nature of a man? Me The one person on the planet who could see into men’s souls Who could feel their deepest fears and see the color of their worth