Chapter Fifty-Six

“How do you know Beckett Lawley?” I asked Rylee as I stood in the doorway of her bedroom.

“Why?” she asked me and I could see that she had stiffened when I mentioned his name.

“You’re living in his apartment,” I said.

“How do you know that?” she asked me.

“The Elders told me, so it’s true?” I asked her.

“I met Beckett about three years ago at a function that Colin had at his house,” she said.

“I’m sure he just jumped at the opportunity to take you in,” I said.

“We became friends,” she said.

“So how do you see this working?” I asked her.

“See what working?” she asked me.

“Us,” I said to her.

“There is no us Lucas. I meant what I wrote in that letter,” she said.

“So why are you here?” I asked her.

“Closure maybe and I felt guilty for you taking my punishment and I wanted to help you heal which my presence did,” she said.

“So you intend to leave again?” I asked her.

“Yes,” she said.

“Don’t,” I said to her.

“I know you don’t want them and I’m more than capable of looking after them myself