Chapter 70. Demise

The hospital would not let Nate go. Since he was shot twice, his gun wounds just inches apart, they wanted to keep him under observation.

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Rachel sat still beside Jacob trying to quell her trembling hands. She didn’t want him to know how much he terrified her. Yet it was impossible when he sat there cold and solid as a statue. She didn’t know what to say. She didn’t even think she could speak if she knew what to say. Fear clogged her throat. How had she never seen this side of him?

I will always ask myself this question for as long as I live, she realized. She just could not understand how she had trusted him, how he had deceived her into thinking he was a good guy. She really thought they were alike when she first him. He had been so sweet and loving, oblivious to his past and secrets Rachel didn’t know she was his shield against the federal authorities after him.

“They are going to find you. Your man is going to speak,” Rachel said with a false air of br