Chapter 16

Asher

Neve pulls her hand out of mine the second we’re through the front door. I let her. She walks beside me across the lot to my truck with her arms wrapped around herself, in a sweater soaked through with bleach and an apron still tied around her waist, and she doesn’t say a word.

I open the passenger door. She stops and looks at it.

“Where are we going?”

“My place.”

She doesn’t move.

“There’s a guest room,” I say. “With a lock on the inside. And my sister, so you won’t be alone with me, if that’s what you’re worried about.”

She looks at me for a long moment. Then she climbs in.

The link opens before I’m out of the lot.

Bring her back, Ash. Now.<