HAZEL
“I’m not going to hurt you. I just need you to turn around quickly for me.” Asher’s soft smile sinks past my resolves. Sets me on edge.
“Of course, I know you’re not going to hurt me.” I exhale. “I don’t know. I guess I’m just now realizing that I don’t know you as well as I thought I did.”
“Why? Because you think I’ve got money?”
“That’s a part of it.” I start listing them off my fingers. “There’s also the fact that you know someone high ranking, who lives at the Lycan court. That’s the only way you were able to get those invites. Then, there’s that night we went running in the military woods. Random subjects can’t just waltz in there. It wasn’t until we left that I really thought about it. You ought to know someone high ranking in the military to be let into the base. And then
