Ryker could not even begin to comprehend how his beautiful Samantha thought he would just let her go without putting up some kind of fight.
The day they skipped school, and she spoke of her desire to leave, he would have argued with her more if he had not seen the determined look on her face. There was no reasoning with her, and he knew it. She had made her mind, and there was no going back for her.
The fact that she didn’t ask him to go with her was probably what hurt the most. The fact that she wouldn’t include him so in her plans truly stung.
He tried to hide his feelings by putting on a shield of coldness indifference - that was totally fake - when he dropped her at her building. He had half a mind to beg her to include her in her plans, but his pride wouldn’t allow it.
But onc
