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“Rob, how are you?” Hunter asked. “Cap said you’re having some…issues.”
I glanced at Kate, but he stepped in front of her. “Why are you blocking her?”
“Because I need you to talk to me.”
“Why? She’s the doctor. You’re just a medic.”
“You’ve never said that before when I’ve tended to your wounds.”
“You’ve never tended my wounds because I’ve never had any,” I countered. “Not in any of the books. You know that.”
He nodded and walked over to the drawer, pulling out a big syringe. “I’m going to give you something to make you feel better.”
“Kate, don’t let him do this. I need to talk to you. Only you,” I pleaded.
She studied me intently as I continued pleading with her. My heart rate skyrocketed as Hunter picked up the IV and held the syringe to it. This was it. After this, no one would believe me.
“Wait,” Kate said, placing her hand on Hunter’s. “Give me a few minutes with him.”
“Kate—”
“I’m the doctor.” The look she shot Hunter had him putting down the syringe and stepping back. He stepped outside, crossing his arms over his chest as he waited.
“Rob, what’s going on?”
“I need you to believe me,” I said, speaking fast, knowing I had little time to spare. “I met with Giulia. She’s trying to kill off my girlfriend in this book, but I can’t let her. I’ll never get a happily ever after if she succeeds.”
“Rob, you’re not making any sense.”
I gripped her hand tightly, and only then did she really understand how desperate I was. “Have you ever done something in one of the—in life,” I corrected. “Have you ever felt that a choice you made was not your own? Like maybe someone was making that decision for you?”
Her eyes drifted to the side and she chewed her lip. “Possibly, but what does that have to do with anything?”
“What if…what if we aren’t in control of our actions? What if someone is manipulating us and making us do things we don’t want to?”
“Like who?”
I swallowed hard, knowing it was now or never. “Kate, we’re in a book,” I said, my voice shaking. “All of this…we’re just characters in a book. We’re being forced to do what the author wants. None of us have any say in what happens here. You’re a rational woman. Do you really think someone like you would fall for an assassin like Knight?”
“I love him.”
“Do you? Or is it like someone is telling you that you should love him? Maybe you always did love him, but what about when he abandoned you? Are you telling me you brought him home and you were fine with how that ended? You just went on with life as if he hadn’t tried to destroy yours? Think about it!” I hissed.
She sucked in a breath, blinking back tears gathering in her eyes. “I…Maybe. But…it doesn’t make sense.”
“None of this does. Think, Kate. Think back to when you first met everyone through your cousin, Cole. Do you remember that?”
She nodded.
“That was the beginning, and since then, we’ve all been forced to play a part. You have to remember.”
She glanced over her shoulder, then quickly back to me. “Let’s say there’s truth to what you’re saying…how would we even go about getting everyone else to understand?”
That was the hard part. Even speaking about this right now to Kate was potentially catastrophic. “We need to wait until she goes to bed. Once she shuts down for the night, she can’t control us. We can call a meeting and?—”
The door swung open and Hunter walked inside, narrowing his eyes at me. “Sorry, I had to…” He frowned as if he didn’t know where he had gone or why he had done it. Almost as if…Giulia stepped away from the keyboard.
“It’s fine. Kate was just talking me down.”
