“Do you mind trying to tell me why it was that you were down there with the mutt?” Ryder questioned her as she took a deep inhale before looking at his expression and noting how he did not look at her with wrath or even displeasure. Instead, he looked to her as if he had been correct of his initial assumptions of her-assumptions that she prayed he didn’t share with Paxton. “I heard Pax tell you what we do...I heard him confess it like the i***t he is...and for some unknown reason, he trusts you-but none of us do…” Ryder pulled her from the other side of the secret entrance until she now stood in the center of the office. “So you and I are going to make a little bit of a deal…”
“I won’t say anything-” She attempted to use her words to win her freedom from his grip, but watched him shake hi
