ALICE
I didn't have a chance to confront Mr. Linden-Hawthorne about what he did because Mom and Dad didn't leave his side once.
But now, everyone was asleep, so I had my chance to walk up to him and talk.
We were going around in circles; I knew that. I told him what my wishes were a long time ago, and I already knew what he wanted from me. But before we left New York, we were discussing something important, and after all this, I had to know where we stood.
The last thing I needed was to be indebted to him and, ultimately, be forced to do whatever he wanted.
At the same time, I was starting to feel a certain way about him that scared me, because it hit me from out of nowhere. No, not out of nowhere. That wasn't right.
From the day we kissed in my office on New Year's Eve, I felt
