Chapter 11

Quinn

Just when I started to relax and think I was safe, Troy pulled a new one on me, coming out of nowhere with a question so bizarre I had no idea how to answer him. His eyes turned from warm to cold in split second, and his body went rigid when he pushed away from me.

I had to keep reminding myself that he wasn’t my friend or my lover. He was my owner, even if he claimed otherwise.

He was just like Caroline. He wanted to use me for his own selfish needs. It would serve me well to remember that. I wasn’t living some happily ever after fairy tale here. He wanted to use me for whatever purpose I'd serve, and I used him so I wouldn’t have to spend another night out on the streets.

Although, it didn't quite feel that way. Something else was happening between us, I just didn't know what that something was.

“I don’t understand,” I said and folded my arms around my rapidly cooling body. “I’m human, just like you.”

“Stop lying to me!”

He violently slapped the surface of the lake with