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Leif unlocks the car and I launch myself into the back seat.
Leif gets us the hell out of there, the tires screeching.
“How much time do you think we have on them?” Falcon asks Leif from the front seat.
“Not much. But they won’t call the cops. They were obviously keeping someone under duress. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.”
“No,” I say quietly. “They weren’t.”
“What the hell are you talking about, Vannah?” Falcon asks.
“I went willingly, Falcon.”
He turns around, glaring at me. “Why the fuck would you do that?”
“I… I made a deal. For you.”
His eyes widen. “Fuck.”
“I made a deal so you wouldn’t be charged with Abel’s murder. Miles can take care of it. I thought I’d go with him, marry him.” I grab his arm and squeeze it. “I didn’t want you to go back to prison.”
He whips his arm out of my grasp. “Vannah, I’d go back to prison for a thousand lifetimes for you.”
“But I don’t want you to.”
He crosses his arms. “I didn’t kill the motherfucker anyway. They can’t pin it on me.”
I shake my head. “You don’t know the kind of power these families have. They have judges in their back pockets. Cops in their back pockets. They can pin anything on you.”
“She’s probably right,” Leif says.
“Then what the hell are we going to do?” Falcon says. “Because she is not going back to that degenerate.”
“Falcon, I?—”
He holds a hand up to quiet me. “Absolutely not, Vannah. You belong with me. I belong with you. And if we have to stay on the road our whole lives, so fucking be it.”
A smile spreads across my face. “I don’t want that for you, Falcon. But I love that you’re willing.”
“Are you kidding me? I have no life without you.”
I look down at my puke-stained nightie and wrinkle my nose. “I’m covered in my own vomit.”
“I don’t care.”
“It actually… It actually saved me.”
“What do you mean?”
“Miles. He… He was on top of me, about to?—”
“Vannah…” he says through clenched teeth.
I put my hands in front of me. “He didn’t, Falcon. He didn’t. I was ready for it. I had accepted my fate, but then… They fed me a meal. Salmon and some vegetables. And I didn’t feel like eating, but I knew I had to. I knew I had to eat to keep up my strength, to be tough. To get through this for you. And I…”
“You puked all over him?” Leif says, laughing.
“It didn’t seem so funny at the time, but yeah. I puked all over him. And he didn’t get into me, Falcon.”
