I need to chase her.
As I always do when it comes to this girl.
Chapter 49
Piper
I run.
In a way.
He never said I was a prisoner.
But the moment I woke up and realised he wasn’t in the room, I left. I assumed he was out of the house, which meant I didn’t have to face him.
But what else am I supposed to do?
Isn’t it obvious?
We have nothing left to discuss.
Too much has happened between us.
I’ll never be rid of his father. Not if I want my own father to stay alive.
And I can’t do this again.
I can’t go back to sneaking around and pretending that somehow we’ll make it work in secret.
It’s too much.
And what’s the point?
For him, this has always been physical.
He can’t love me.
He can’t give me the one thing I’ve wanted for as long as I can remember.
And even if he could, his father would always stand between us.
I asked one of the maids to call me a taxi.
Instead, they sent a man to drive me.
A driver, perhaps.
He never said a word, he simply drove me to the airport.
Where Adelaide’s jet was waiting.
I had asked the driver for his phone to contact her. Somewhere between the hospital stay and the complete clusterfuck that is my life, mine disappeared.
She didn’t ask questions.
And for that I’m grateful.
I boarded the jet, and before long we touched down on Elaris Island.
