Bandits

Alizeh woke up in a better mood than she had experienced in a long time. It was nice to be away from everything. To think, to put things in perspective. It was even nice to have someone to talk to that was not involved in ruining her life. She had decided last night, that she needed to let Cade go. What they had was real. It was everything, but I would never be fair to him that her heart was not his. Part of it would always belong to Orion. She jumped up and gently kicked Tom. He was snoring with his mouth open, which she found funnier than the situation called for. “Wake up fool. We are wasting daylight. Let’s find these bandits you spoke of last night.”

Tom shot up, unexpectedly “Hush girl. You know not what you speak of. The day we meet those bandits, will be the last day we live. That is my word, and my word is my bond. “

She laughed and said, “You’re a bank robber for Goddess’s sake, your word cannot be your bond.”

“Not true,” Tom said earnestly. “I do not lie, I steal. I steal b