Chapter 18

Sam 

When Odette had been kidnapped from the exhibition, and Sam had gotten over the rush of adrenaline in the limo, he felt a terrible sense of guilt over the fact that he and Clint had also kidnapped Odette themselves. Sure, they didn’t have whatever toxic and loathsome grip over Odette that the man that Clint had killed earlier clearly had, but he had to wonder if they’d also hurt Odette by taking her out of her natural environment. He tried to reassure himself that she hadn’t been doing that well emotionally when they’d abducted her…Not compared to how she was now. But was that really true? 

Seeing Odette cry had been heartbreaking; Sam never wanted to cause her any hurt. With their strange, weird, wonderful arrangement with Odette living in their basement, Sam had been happier than he had been in a long time—perhaps even happier than since their mother had left them when he was a child. He'd always had Clint and Jake, and they'd held each other up through