El POV El looked at the message she’d gotten from Conner, she’d already been up and gone for a morning swim, had hit that pool at 5am, she’d been unable to sleep. So she had gotten up. She’d not seen hide nor hair of him in three days. Then he just texted her out of the blue and it was weird to say the least, he’d apologised and told her what he’d been up to. Asked how she was. El had sat and stared at that message for a long time and then just ignored it. Didn’t need that man talking to her, trying to be all friendly like with her, likely just wanted to come to her room and have his way with her. That got her ass up and off the couch, “Nope, not going to happen again.” Yanked her hiking boots on in a hurry and was gone out of the room, before he just bloody showed up and got what he w