Chapter 24

***Laney POV***

Monty and Falcon have been gone for a decent amount of time, enough to make me anxious that perhaps something has happened to one of them. It’s not that I don’t think they can handle themselves. They have proven more than once that they are very capable, but trust is scarce for me. I trust them, which inherently makes me worry I will lose them. That is after, all what happens every time I trust people.

It happened with my adoptive parents and Millie. My own and only real friend in my life. Now, in the span of less than a week, I have created bonds with not only one but three people who I feel I can truly trust explicitly. That doesn’t mean I want to share every aspect of my life, but it means that I want them in my future. For someone who has never had the ability to think past the next day all her life, that’s a tremendous step for me.

“What’s on your mind?” Rome asks as she walks over to take a seat at my side. I watch as the fire lights her hair up with hues of red