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Kyle added, “Don’t sendti chicken, you know? He’s been doing this shit for three decades”

Another nod, because I siet a word around the lump in my throat

“So let et even better And all those dangers Dane had to face because he was born a billionaire that your son now faces because he’s an heir to a huge empire—let me be the one to help protect him from it all”

I would have hugged him if my arh Told of ratitude and best-friend love and devotion

He gently whisked away ain if it’s okay that I stay”

I did Emphatically

With Kyle keeping his allegiance to h, I was able to let him and Rosa look after my son while I drifted in and out and tried to heal

Morning ca haul ahead of hiether, and tidy up all facets of the secret society run a Not stopping by

He’d trusted Kyle to return A I’d witnessed hiun to Mikaela’s head and that he’d been seriously close to pulling the trigger—again—in his rage?

It was all justified, but still … He’d likely be freaked out that I’d had to see hierous one last time

I fretted over every h he also wondered if Dane had slipped into some sort of rawer, darker place in hisfoot in his own house—fro all of us

It created a very tense environment And inci

ted a lot of anticipation

All I wanted was for Dane to walk through the door To be with me

What had happened to us was so I could eventually put behind me I could survive it, just as the rest of us would survive And knowing Kyle planned to keep Amsel safe from any future threat settled me all the more