Adele
“You can put me down now,” I insist as Rafe carries me across the threshold of his lodge. He hasn’t let me go since we left Dieter’s. We rode in the backseat of Deke’s Mercedes–which looks like it’s been off-roading and fallen fender first off a mountain.
“Nope,” he grunts. “No can do, princess. I’m never letting you go.”
I blink at him. “What does that mean?”
He knows what I’m asking. “It means I was an i***t. The biggest i***t who ever walked this Earth. I thought I could keep you safer by staying away, but all I did was break both our hearts and get you kidnapped again.”
I furrow my brow. “Was I kidnapped? I still don’t understand what that was all about. What did Dieter want?”
“I don’t know, but I will never let him near you again. I promise.”
Rafe carries me into his bedr
