Chapter 275

Drew didn't understand. Of course, she knew him. She'd seen the pictures of him on his rap sheet and she, at some point, had to have been given a picture of him so she'd know who to watch out for. "I know."

"No," she sighed. "You don't. This is something very few people know." She couldn't be this close to him when she told him the sins of her mother, which she hoped didn't turn into the sins of her youth. Needing desperately to have space to herself and get her head together, she got disentangled herself from his arms and got out of the bed. Pacing helped her, it was what she did in a court room when she was trying to get her opening and closing arguments prepared in her head before speaking them.

"Then explain to me." Drew sat up in the bed but didn't try to move. He looked at her as if he were afraid she'd run.

Don't let me run from you. Those were the words she'd just spoken to him, and she wanted desperately to flee.

"No," Drew commanded. "I can see it in your eyes. You st