Chapter Seventy One

I had believed this was our little space, a place no one could get to us. I was wrong; just the way she found us, others could. I didn't want to be on a run all the days of my life, yet the future seemed inevitable.

"What do you want, and why did you come all this way just to find me?. I know it's really not because you missed me that badly."

"You are right. I know about the rejection. But I am curious, how could you reject a man like him?"

"That's none of your business."

"Except there is someone else. Tell me, is he living there with you?, is that why you left?"

"Let's drop the pretense. I never really liked you, so why are you here?"

"I need your help."

I laughed. "My help?, that; a funny way to ask for it.

You already know the answer to that, but just in case you aren't quick enough to process it, it's NO."

"You haven't even heard..."

"NO', now leave, and make sure no one knows about this place."

"And if I decided to rat you out?,"

I drew closer to her, and I gripped her by the cl