CHAPTER 4: UNCOVERED SECRETSKAT AWOKE TO THE INCESSANT ringing of the phone on her dresser across the room, though she couldn’t recall exactly when she’d fallen asleep. She’d gone to bed just moments after Gage had left, but she’d laid there as minutes and then hours passed by. At first, she’d refused to cry. She’d refused to cry over a man who inflicted pain and fear for a living. But he wasn’t just that. The Gage she’d come to know wasn’t that at all. It made no sense. And it was never going to make sense because he was gone.
If she’d just been smart from the beginning and kept her distance, it wouldn’t matter to her now that she’d never see him again. If she’d been smart, Gage would never have mattered to her. But she’d been foolish and now she was paying the price for it.
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