Chapter Seventy-eight: HIS NAME IS DANE

ALLISON KEELER

If I had imagined sitting still and depicting different emotions was a task, then the next morning was a whole new world of surprise for me.

Chase had me do some marrow drilling workouts which he casually called prep steps.

I couldn't do anything when I got back to the apartment.

"Chase trains like I'm a beast." I joined the table when I had showered and fitted into the dress Darlene offered me.

"You've been a klutz for too long," Alan said through bites of his toast.

A part of me was grateful he didn't say a runt. I watched the handsome faces of the occupants of the table. My heart swelled just to think I had gotten their acceptance.

"We've just enclosed the video in the email." Matt announced, watching my face, "We make the Flynns return to a baffling surprise."

"You take control and change things. They return to a new territory, a new ruler, and new rules." Luca took a glass of water to his lips.

"What if they make trouble?" I asked.

"We make double the troub