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“I’m … sorry”

Froot the sense that he wasn’t used to apologizing for his behavior

“I don’t—” She stopped and looked away “I can’t do this”

“Don’t be afraid of me”

“What do you expect after what you just did? I’h, I don’t knohat the hell I’” She shook her head “I’m sorry”

He cupped her face and shook his head “Don’t say you’re sorry to me Not when I don’t deserve it I’y”

“And you don’t like saying it,” she said

“Grace, I stopped saying sorry years ago It’s a habit I easily grew out of”

“How come?”

“You really don’t want to know”

“Why ah?” She put her hand on his chest and quickly moved it away

She had to stay focused here This man had taken all that she’d known Kidnapped her, and now she had to make a choice to stay with him or to leave What kind of person forced someone to make that choice? It made absolutely no sense to her She didn’t want to understand it

None of this made sense

“There are things in this world that will terrify you, Grace I don’t want to expose you to them”

She s shot at? Threatened? All of these things have happened to et much worse?”

“I know it can”

She tilted her head to the side “I need to go and check on Jaave her space

He stepped back and even as he did, she mourned his closeness, which was crazy

Turning on her heel, she left his office, even more confused than when she entered it

Caleb was a patient man

He knehen to take a step back and when to move full steam ahead When it came to Grace, he needed to take his ti to do

What Grace didn’t see to keep it fro with him indefinitely There was no possible way he’d ever be able to trust her with everything she’d seen No matter her promises, he wasn’t a fool

Grace wasn’t loyal to him just yet, but one day she would be