Chapter 32
Bane’s tremors still hadn’t eased. They wouldn’t until she was far away from danger, probably at about the time that the nausea kicked in. He would prefer the nausea. Having Lainie at any sort of risk was just too hard. He’d spent three years replaying that hideous scene in the cave over and over in his mind, trying to work out what he could have done differently, and had realised early on that he should never have let her get that close to danger in the first place. What good was a premonition of a threat if he didn’t act on it? She might never forgive him for this betrayal, but it was far better than the alternative. He was just thankful that she hadn’t remembered how to resist people yet or he and the sergeant would never have been able to get away with bullying her into lea
