The way Nate and the curly-haired man had swooped in so effortlessly and rescued us from the hands of those people kept replaying in my mind. I couldn’t understand why we were attacked. I’d never been attacked throughout my stay in this city, but suddenly, Brian was here, and we were no longer safe.
They almost took Liah from me. The thought of it still scares me. I stared at her soundly sleeping in my arms. I had refused to let any of them take her to bed. She must’ve been so frightened by all that, but then she didn’t break down.
‘Thankfully, you shielded her just fine from all of that, or she’d have been traumatized,’ Rae said, and for once I acknowledged that.
I watched Brian from the sofa where he was conversing with both Nate and the curly-haired man in hushed tones while constant
