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“Do you want to go somewhere else?”
I pat my chest in fake surprise. “You’re not afraid I will use my chance to escape?”
“You could try, but I will always find you.”
I expect him to drive us back, but Kieran takes a right and drives for a few miles in the opposite direction. He parks, and in front of me opens a lake. Boats on the shore knock each other, a small, inviting restaurant on the right.
I get out of the car and approach the clear lake.
“Do you want to take a boat out?”
“Yes, I would like that.” Excitement replaces the gloom. There is nothing more beautiful than nature.
An elderly man approaches, and he smiles when he sees Kieran.
“Fox, this is my fiancée, Aurora.”
The way he pronounces my name while calling me his is a searing stamp. Bye-bye, freedom.
“We’ll take a boat out.”
“I’ll prepare something for the two of you.”
When he leaves, I say, “Wouldn’t have thought you’d be into this...”
“Into what?”
“Simple.”
“Simple is the best. I love this place. It’s quiet.”
I can’t shake the feeling, there’s more to it. Him showing me that side of him is dangerous to my heart.
The boat bobs on the lake. He extends his hand and I grip it.
“I would never let anything happen to you.”
“No, but who will protect me from you?”
“Is this so bad, Aurora?”
Our eyes collide when I stumble into his chest on the boat, and I notice how tired he looks.
“It is when you are not given a choice,” I whisper and detangle myself from him.
“So, what would you choose between being mine and being sold to a monster?”
“I know what to expect from a monster, not from you.”
I regret my words the moment they’re out.
Kieran tenses.
“I would have let you be sold, so thank your brother.”
“You would, wouldn’t you?”
And that hurts. A pain spreads across my chest, backing my battered heart into a corner.
