94: Introductions

JADE

I couldn’t explain what I felt when I came out of the shower and there was a shirt on the bed for me. Not just a shirt, but atlas’s shirt.

I’d slipped it on and immediately got into bed.

I was saying in my old room. It was exactly as I had left it the last time. Only with free linens and bedcovers. And Sarah had been the one to do that when we arrived. She gave me a knowing look. Almost like she knew I would be back.

It left me wondering if I was the only one lying to myself. I couldn’t leave Atlas. Even if I run to the end of the world, I knew for sure if he wanted me back. He would find means bring me back. And here is nothing I could do about it.

Right man had been like din the dungeon.

“Good thinking.” Atlas had said when I told him the reason I left the man alive. He didn’t ask me about whatever they wanted form me.

It was probably a dumb move but I couldn’t leave it in the house anymore so I brought the locket out of its hiding place and wore it around my neck.

Atlas had st