CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
Kai put me in a first-floor bedroom adjoining his through the bathroom, similar to the last place we’d stayed. Brooke was on the second floor. There was no third floor or I had no doubt she would’ve been put there. As it was, Kai had guards outside her door, outside the house, and in the hallways. Every door and large window had someone stationed there.
It was an odd feeling to step out into the hallway a few hours later, long after it had grown dark outside, and walk past the guards, not having them even blink at me.
I was free.
It was starting to sink in with me. I knew it, but feeling it was different.
“—don’t understand why I’m not with Riley!”
I paused in the hallway to listen.
Brooke’s strident voice was reaching maximum volume above me.
A low murmur resp
