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He sat her down beside hiht eet Stone on his back, but until I figure it out, I need to know you’re safe”

She sed, but her voice was even as she asked, “So once it’s over, you’ll come for me?”

He didn’t respond immediately Gods knehat he wanted to say, but would it be safe for her? For his hed heavily on his shoulders

She sed “In the books, the man she loves always comes to find her”

He froze She wouldn’t look at hi in the air between them

There was no good response He ignored her confession, choosing instead to kiss her until she crawled on top of hi around his face like a curtain They lay like that, an setting, casting the room with shadows

She finally shifted against him “You said you needed to knohat my father did to upset Stone”

“The ather, the sooner this will end”

“It ht have to do with the mine”

Peirce perked up “The mine?”

She rubbed her arms, as if suddenly cold To his surprise, she lifted her chin and looked him square in the eyes “Yes Plymouth’s iron mine The accident was my father’s fault”

Chapter 8

Peirce atching her ary caution “Explain?”

She leaned back fro up on the opposite end of the couch “Theto make back the money he lost from my mother’s treatments”

“Treatments?”