“I want…” I pulled back and closed my eyes, completely rattled. “I want to go back to Shadows,” I confessed as I was hit with a sudden epiphany. Even before Ben Oliver came into my life, I’d never felt so safe and content, and the warmth and love on that mountain suddenly became all I wanted.
“And that’s exactly where we’re going, just as soon as we can.” He used the backs of his fingers to dry my tears. I grabbed his hand and held on to it like an anchor as he moved us outside the mill and back toward the others.
Frank didn’t miss a beat and whisked us back to Washington Headquarters that night. I decided to skip dinner and crawled into bed after a hot shower, but even that didn’t do much to help my shakes. Frank made sure to set up a meeting with Jennifer’s lawyer the next morning so I
