Chapter Fifteen
"This was a bad idea, we shouldn't have come here..."
"We have no choice." Rick took her hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. "I'm here by choice," he reminded her.
"That's not the point." She was still worried. She wouldn't be able to forgive herself if anything happened to him just because she hadn't stood up to her brother when she should have. Maybe they wouldn't have been about to risk their lives if she'd grown a backbone.
"Tabitha, we're in this together. I can't let you go back in there alone now we know what we know."
"But the world loses more if you..."
He turned to face her, a devoted look in his eyes. "Do you really think that's true? I mean to start with, if you die, then I do too."
A weak smile pulled at the corners of her lips. She had to admit that
