They dressed and Zane left the way he had entered. Through the back window.

Zane left Hope feeling more besotted than ever before. He felt as if he was adrift on the ocean. He had not felt the way he did about Hope since his fiancée. He was disappointed though. She was not going to give him the chance to show her that he could help her. She was going to continue regardless. Whatever hold the people had over her, it was more than she believed he could offer her.

He told himself that he had to wise up. He had to be strong and accept that she was going...