Chapter 24He suspected his focus on everything but her was starting to wear on Maya. That was one reason he pulled her out onto the dance floor. Part of it was Dec’s forced concentration on the problem at hand. He had to find Katie and Danny before it was too late. If anything happened, there would be nobody to blame but himself.
But Dec wasn’t blind. He knew that the other part of his distance was his fear that the next time Maya left, she wouldn’t come back. It didn’t matter she’d said she would, or that he’d swallowed his mistrust enough to give her opportunity to vanish from his life. When she’d opened the doors that led to the refuge, and he’d seen her standing up there with the sunlight filtering behind her in a tawny swathe, Dec had been overwhelmed by the relief that had warmed hi
