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“I want to know everything,” he nods vigorously “Everything that happened while ere separated It’s important to me”

I nod and shut htly I don’t want to speak about it, but I know Heath is right If I want to deal with my problems and the emotional wounds left behind by Xander, I need to talk about what he did to h So for the next hour, Heath listens quietly while I recount everything that happened in Xander’s mansion By the tihtly they’ve turned white, and he looks more pissed off than I’ve ever seen him

“I’h”

“I’one for good He escaped, didn’t he?”

“He did,” Heath nods with so for the bastard and neither will Xavier”

“But Xavier he’s looking for us too, right?”

“Probably,” Heath ad to let him find you”

I shakefor hi”

“I will not let him take you away from me”

“What if you don’t have a choice?”

“Rain, he’s not putting his claws on you again I’d rather die than watch that happen”

I remain quiet, unsure whether I should tell him I know Xavier can kill us both, no ive a shit that we’re et ahead I realized that a long tio

Heath paces the roo my hands in my lap

“When they fucked you” Heath’s unfinished sentence hangs in the air between us “When they fucking raped you Did they use protection?”

I shake aze as I softly add, “They only fucked my ass”

He curses out loud Heath seeht now, so pissed of because of everything that’s happened to er yet

“It doesn’t o on “I still want you”