Chapter 59. You!

“You know there’s a surefire way to check. I know you brought him. What are you waiting for? I wouldn’t have asked you to come if I wasn’t sure, and he knows her by sight. He’ll kill your doubts in a flash.” Leyanne goads him, confidence oozing. Her posture is straight and arrogant, as though she knows this is inevitable and he’s wasting time by delaying. I can’t add anything to this conversation because I don’t know what it is, what he wants with me, or why he’s trying to prove I am who she says I am. Or who they have who would know me face to face. My heart rate ups its chaotic beat, and my palms turn clammy with sheer stress at this situation.

“He’s hesitant, afraid of disappointment after thinking she was gone all these years. I can’t force him to look at her if he doesn’t want to.” The dark stranger shifts in his seat, props an arm on the ledge, and turns his head at the black-tinted window. Staring at the road out there, and flexes that square, muscular jawline. If I did