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Cain nodded “You have my cell?” he asked

Vincent gave hih his eyes were back on the phone

Neither ed any additional words as Cain took my hand in his and led rabbed onto ht before the cops had shown up But unlike that time, this time I was actually able to enjoy the sensation of his callused skin againstmy hand on purpose, not just as part of some act

“What now?” I asked

“It’s not worth flying back to Seattle to wait so we’ll check out the hotel You okay with that?”

Asto spend a few more days with Cain in complete and utter privacy was a welcome relief and for the first ti, I felt my spirits lift Admittedly, I hadn’t done well after Cain had voiced what I’d already known – thatto be what I wanted it to be if that phone couldn’t be fixed I’d felt guilty for co how s would have been without Ronan and Cain, but knowing I’d be losingwith the freedo

After we’d checked out of the hotel and gotten some food, Cain had returned the rental car and we’d taken a cab to a different agency and gotten a new rental They were steps I wouldn’t have even considered taking if I’d been onand we’d spent h to listen to because there’d been so little joy in his life coone to live with his grand out of the hospital He’d adood and that she’d been kind to him, but he’d been unable to connect with her like he would have been able to had the circu touched had started even before he’d left the hospital and his grandirl who’d tried to kiss hi him for the first time, he’d lashed out at her While he hadn’t hurt her, he’d known she was afraid of hiain tried to have any kind of physical contact with him

He’d been sent to a shrink after his stay at the hospital, but his trust issues hadaround other people hadn’t worked either and he’d dropped out of school by the tiet his GED a year later, but hadn’t had any interest in college so he’d stayed in Indianapolis to be near his grandmother, despite their strained relationship He’d worked odd jobs over the years, mostly ones where he hadn’t had to interact with a lot of other people When his grandmother had died just after his twenty-first birthday, he’d left Indiana He hadn’t told h I did wonder if it was at that point that he’dfor him

When we hadn’t been talking on the drive to West Virginia, I’d been thinking aboutHe’d been so certain thatet away fro safe was just a sliver of what had er the more time I spent in his co parts of myself to him It had been a little over teeks since he’d tackledwas different

He was different

I was too

But maybe it wasn’t that I was necessarily different…he was justit okay for me to be the real ood enough to be I kept trying to remind myself to take it sloith Cain because I needed to o back to ho I’d taken things with Eric I’d spentto know Eric before I’d slept with hi about hi that was real anyway