Chapter Fourty Nine

Chapter 49

Maya.

Maya shivered as she eased down onto the cold stone bench and clutched her arms around her trembling body. She glanced down at her feet but couldn’t summon any rebuke for having gone out in the chill without shoes or a coat. The only thought she’d had was to get away as quickly as possible. She couldn’t face Alex now.

Now she knew why she’d been drawn to this place. Her thinking spot, indeed.

Just hours before that last night, she’d sat here, afraid of how Alex would react to her pregnancy. She’d been right to be afraid. He didn’t trust her. Hebdidn’t love her. And he had left her to her fate with the kidnappers.

She refused to allow the memories to roll back in her mind. They simply hurt too much. At least now she realized why she’d chosen to forget. All those weeks of living in fear as her kidnappers waited for their demands to be met had paled

next to the betrayal Alex had handed her when he had refused.

How could anyone be so cold? Wouldn’t he have been willing t