“Good. He is different. I’ve never seen him that affected by something. All he wanted was to get you out of there. We wouldn’t normally negotiate in a situation like that,” he added and looked at me with seriousness in his eyes.
I nodded, the gravity sinking in even deeper as he confirmed what I already suspected, that Azriel normally wouldn’t have negotiated with kidnappers. If Azriel had just seen me as ‘property’ maybe I wouldn’t have been deemed worthy enough to have made it out of there. He could’ve replaced me easily. I’d been thinking a lot about that.
“He did not stop until he got you out of there. He barely ate or slept and was hell on wheels until he got you back. Azriel has a short fuse. He needs to work on that. I hope…I hope he does. For you. Try to be patient. You should k
