When I had successfully satisfied that devil of a man, he allowed me to return to Seth, who had been patiently waiting for me in the parking lot. I was surprised to find out that he hadn’t left the car even when I had been gone for an hour.
I settled in the front passenger seat to meet the anxiety that rested in his eyes, and then told him, “Noah had agreed to visit my sister in the evening.”
“Can I now consider that we’re done with Noah?” asked Seth, wondering if we could now go back to our apartment and live in peace.
As much as I wanted to tell him that we no longer had to deal with that manipulating man, I couldn’t. We still couldn’t afford to separate ourselves from him, as he had the upper hand over me. If I were to cease all contact with him, he would leave Anne again, which wo
