'I'll tell Hale exactly who you really are if you don't meet me.'
I had probably read the text fifty times this morning. Somehow I knew I couldn't be lucky enough for Nicky to just leave me alone. I contemplated ignoring him. Maybe he was bluffing. This new Nicky was unpredictable though and I wasn't sure how to take him. I didn't want to risk it.
This was dumb. I couldn't hide forever. Someday, I planned to open up to Hale and tell him everything. I would let him know exactly how I came to work for him, and everything that happened, and then I would tell him exactly how I began to fall in love. Maybe he would see it as just another part of our story. Maybe, if I was really lucky, he would think it was funny that I could ever have suspected him of something like being responsible for my
