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A pounding ensues inover the whiplash of emotions One minute, I want to fall into the safety net I hope my captor could provide, then the next, I realize just how insane that idea is He is a ht and has no plans to ever let me live outside of his reach

I rub away the tears and atteith agitation and an overwhel need to lock myself in a padded cell

This is it I've gone mad

My life before the past forty-eight hours was so bleak, lonely, and desolate that the idea of being with theI can do

“Arabella, are you all right?” Maxwell asks fro me a bit

“Uet fresh air?”

His eyes show his wariness, and I understand

“You can coarden”

His brows lift, shocked at arden?”

“Yes, he told me about it today Can we visit it? I won't run, Maxwell I' the book “Besides, it's not like anyone from my world cares to have me back” I don't want pity; it's just how I feel It is what it is The only man ould care would be

“One minute, miss” He removes a cell phone from his black suit jacket, then with a click of the screen, he calls someone

“Sir She is requesting to see the garden Do I have your permission?” He called DeLuca

I can't hear what he says But I assuives him a “Thank you” and “Will do”

“Let’s go He approved”

“Looks like he’s both our keeper,” I tease, standing

How is a doctor so powerful? Why does he have a henchs, because truthfully, I only see this type of stuff in The Ruin Could DeLuca be a part of our world? I stop for aof the possibility he could be

No, there isn’t a chance If he was, he would know just how dangerous it would be to steal iven who my father and husband are