Chapter 35

Andrew Blake

For the longest minute, she held my gaze, and when she finally made a sound, she threw her head back in a boisterous, yet humorless cackle.

“Do you think there is any more reason why I should be with you?” she drawled out, “You do not even want me so why make it hard for both of us?”

In other words, she needed me to be the boss when my father retired for whatever freedom she craved and that was why she would do anything to make sure that this relationship between us worked.

There were certainly more sides to the information she was divulging and for one, I didn’t care. I needed out and if she was not willing to cooperate then that was fine. I am Andrew Blake and I would never have come this far if I relied on the sentiment of people like Jesse Sanders.

“What would you possibly require from your father? What sort of freedom are you talking about?” I inquired, somewhat because I needed to know if I was going to be any step ahead of her