Chapter Five

CHAPTER FIVE

This guy?” Lu said.

“Renan.”

“Yeah. Him. Why are you guys together, anyway? He’s obviously a complete tool.”

Montessa stayed silent. This was where she was supposed to defend Renan. Tell her kidnapper she was in love, that he didn’t know her boyfriend, that he couldn’t make judgments on the wonderful man that she committed her life to.

“Hey. Girl.”

“I told you it’s Montessa. Why don’t you tell me your name?”

“I don’t want to.”

“It’s Lu.”

“How did you know that?”

She looked out of the window. He’d let her into the front of the cab, shackled her to the door handle again. It was dark. The seat was soft and comfortable and felt like luxury. She had told Lu as much. He said he was frightened that such small things made her happy. She must be awfully used to being miserable, he said, if such tiny things meant so much.

“There’s a lot of energy to you, Lu. Built up under your skin. Behind your eyes. One day, you’re just going to explode.”

She turned to him, studied his