Page 72 of Scars of Fate

For me.

I leaned closer.

“Go.”

For one second, I thought she might refuse.

Then she released my wrist.

“Come back.”

Two words.

Quiet.

Simple.

They struck deeper than anything she could have said.

I nodded.

“Always.”

Wynn stared at me.

We both knew that wasn’t true.

I hadn’t always come back.

Not when it mattered.

Boone began moving up the trail with Samir.

Wynn took one reluctant step after them.

Then another.

She looked back once.

I waited until she disappeared around the bend.

Only then did I turn toward the gunfire.

Adam was watching me.

“Not a word.”

“I wasn’t going to say anything.”

“You were thinking it.”

He smiled.

“Thinking isn’t against the rules.”

“It should be.”

We moved downhill.