Chapter 45

RAE

The taxi dropped me off in front of my campus while I fumbled in my bag for my phone. I was still trembling. Had I almost been kidnapped?

That man had my luggage in his car! He’d somehow entered my apartment to fuck my brains out and then again to take my belongings. Who did shit like that?

I get that I’d fucked up big time, and he’d had to do something equally wrong to cover up for me, but forcing me to go on the run wasn’t the answer! And on top of that, it didn’t make sense that he was willing to upend his life for a stranger. I was in danger? I’d put myself on the radar? What the hell did that even mean?

My bag dropped, spilling the contents onto the pavement. Students walked around me, snickering when I scrambled to stuff snacks, notes, and toiletries back into my cheap holdall. On any other day, I’d have been glad to see the back of them for a while, but I’d just written my last exam, so I would probably never see them again. That made my heart ache.

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