Chapter 23. And Then I Met You (1)

[2019, March 5th]

Her lungs were burning, but this only made her run faster. She wanted to stop as her eyes blurred with sweat, but this only made her legs move quicker. So when his hand came out of nowhere and yanked on the back of her sweatshirt, she was in two minds, partly pissed off, partly relieved.

“I thought I told you, you go where I say you go until further notice.”

James bent over slightly as he caught his breath.

“That’s not exactly what you said. You said I go where you go. You said we’d be together until all of this was over and now you’re just taking off on me!”

She was yelling even through her breathlessness.

“Then tell me what else am I supposed to do?! There are armed men chasing you! And there will continue to be until you go home!”

“Then take me home! Take me back to Rosa!”

“Zoey, if you just go back to the Arden mansion-”

“I don’t want to go back! I don’t want to see him. I don’t want to be treated like a wom