CHAPTER 31
Finn sighed softly, his concern deepening. “You’re relying on your old anger and letting that dangerous sentimentality drive you again.”
Lauren took a deliberate step toward him. “I am not sentimental anymore,” she asserted. “I’m not the weak recruit they bullied. I am Lauren Lowe.”
“Why hold onto that name?” Finn asked, shaking his head slightly. “It’s not your real last name.”
“Because it’s me,” she insisted. “It is my identity now.”
“It doesn’t have to be.” He softly answered.
“I don’t know my real one, Finn.” She offered a tight, cold smile, sensing his discomfort with the name that rhymed with ‘LO from loser.’
“You don’t have to be that,” he murmured, disliking the cruel origin.
“At least this adds to my new identity,” she countered. “Lowe. Once a badge of shame,
