we will discuss it,” she continued, turning away again.
He studied her profile, tracking the angle of her chin and the smooth plane of her cheeks. She was an older, more stunning version of the teen he’d spent so much time with. More polished. More streamlined. Even with her hair falling in tangles and her clothes ripped and stained, she looked sophisticated and professional. Everything she’d once told him she wanted to be.
I’ll never be like her.
How many times had she said that? When they were teens and young adults, it had been a constant theme in her life. She worked hard to assure herself that she would never be like her mother.
“If there is a choice between you staring at me and you sleeping,” she murmured, “I’d prefer you to sleep.”
“Even with a head injury?” he asked, curious to hear her response.
She glanced his way, the frown still in place. “No,” she replied. “So how about we discuss what isn’t going to happen.”
“Between us?”
“There is no us. There is a volatile situation that I don’t want you involved in,” she replied.
“Unfortunately, you’re not going to get what you want, because I’m already involved.”
“No—”
“This got personal the second someone trespassed on my property and began shooting. I’m not going home and forgetting that happened.”
And he wasn’t going to forget that they had once been good friends who would never have turned their backs on the other’s troubles.
If Wren thought that he was going to turn his back on her now, she was wrong. Despite the past, despite the hurt that was between them, he still cared, and he was still willing to do whatever it took to make certain she stayed safe. If that meant accompanying her wherever she went until the perpetrators were behind bars, then that was exactly what he planned to do.
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