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Raina felt better after talking to the other women. She’d always had friends in her life, until Damon, and knowing she had new friends gave her back some of the confidence he took from her.
“You okay?” Adam asked when they were back in their room.
Raina nodded, fingering the mask Francesca gave her. Frannie, she insisted. She said her friends called her Frannie, and she thought of Raina as a friend. Raina couldn’t stop smiling. And she couldn’t stop thinking about everything they told her.
“I was going to leave tonight,” she confessed to Adam. “I was going to wait until you were sleeping, then sneak out and go find him. Convince him not to hurt you or the others.”
“He’d never—”
“I know.” Raina nodded. She cupped his jaw and stroked the rough stubble there. “That’s why Edie came ov
