Jade
“Why is this scarier than going to see your dad in a house full of people that hate us and a safe filled with loaded guns?”
Killian chuckles and presses a kiss to my temple before squeezing my hand. “It will be alright. C’mon. No point in avoiding them.”
He pushes his door open and then comes around to open mine. Holding his hand in a vice grip, we go up the stairs leading into the corridor to the main hall. As we leave the garage behind us, I feel woozier and woozier.
Yep, I would rather go back to that house in downtown Baltimore and have Viktor Artesian stare at me with those dead eyes…I’m sure by now my parents know all about this from Blanca and Theo. At least it worked. There is a truce in place, no one will come after my family again, and Killian’s ties to them are severed
