Before too long, I’ll be pregnant and then leaving will truly be impossible, and as the days go by, and then months, my nightmares will return, and I’ll find myself more trapped with him than I ever felt in Hardin.
Except I won’t have Dayne there. I won’t have anyone who understands even a hint of what I went through, and I will rebel against telling Jeremy.
Eventually, Jeremy’s patience will snap and he’ll force me to tell him everything, and I will. And then what’ll start as resentment will turn to hate.
It will kill me.
Or one night the nightmares will.
There’s one way to stop it. Only one. My heart clenches in pain, but I ignore it and force myself to speak the words.
“Jeremy Stone, I reject—”
Jeremy claps his hand over my mouth and takes me down onto the couch.
I struggle to p
