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second skin. She was just buttoning them up w hen Damon knocked at the door. She opened it and stepped out.
    “I wasn’t going to sa y anything, but I can’t do it . Y ou told him, didn’t you? You told him not to trust us and that you were leaving as s oon as you’re better. Why would you do something like that to him? Why would you tell him not to trust us?”
    “I don’t know you. Why should I trust anything you do or say? I’m a woman on the run with an eight-year-old little boy and you think just because you’re handsome and nice that I should blindly trust you?”
    “I see. Me bringing you into my home, caring for you, and wanting to make sure you’re healthy doesn’t cut me any kind of slack with you . Y ou would just rather lump all of us in the same category and be done with the whole lot of us. Is that it?”
    “You don’t know what we’ve been through . Y ou have no idea what I’ve done to keep us safe, to keep Connor and me together.”
    “You’re right. I don’t. But then you never gave me or any of the rest of us the opportunity to find out either, did you? You closed the door on us th e moment you opened your eyes . Y ou should remember that I treated those wou nds on your body, all of them. If that didn’t give me the r ight to ask, then nothing did. But I didn’t. I waited, hoping you would tell me on your own. But I guess that’s never going to h appen, is it, Ms. Kirkpatrick? I would appreciate it if when you leave, you would please let us all say good-bye to Connor. He’s allowed us to grow quite fond of him.”
    With that, Da mon walked out of the bedroom. He didn’t slam the door shut, but closed it quietly, the sound of the knob clicki ng into place making her jump. Charlie thought she would have preferred him slamming it. Sitting down on the bed, she burst into tea rs. She had hurt him and her son. The only two men in the world who had done nothing but be kind to her.

~CHAPTER 5~
     
    Anthony Ormond slammed down the phone. That bitch was lucky he was two hundred miles away or he’d have to go and teach her respe ct for the man and the badge. How dare she act as if he was resp onsible for Charlotte leaving. He looked up the next bus stop on the route Charlotte had taken.
    It had be en seven days now and nothing. He didn’t have a clue, not even a single false lead. It was like she and th e brat had simply disappeared. He dialed the next number, wondered how she had managed to get a bus ticket, and took the still ringing phone to his room and looked in his sock drawer.
    “Son of a bitc h! The little bitch robbed me. Fuckin g bitch is gonna pay for that. No more mister nice guy.”
    “Sir? T his is Glassnode Bus Terminal. Is there something I can help you with?” Anthony grinned at the terror in the voice at the other end.
    “Yes. I’m Officer Anthony Ormond. I’m looking for a woman and a br…kid who might have been on a bu s that came into your station. Might have been with in the last five days or less. She would have been hurt, the boy too.”
    Damn right they’d been hurt, he thought. He’d beaten her right good the morning she’d left and that was gonna be nothing like he gave her when he got her back. And that fu cking brat was just gonna end. No need for him anymore. He was gonna end. He didn’t want to raise any other man’s fucking bastard anyway. He’d fuck Charlotte until she took his and then she’d be so busy with his that she’d be happy to have that brat gone.
    “A wo man and a little boy, you say? I’ll have to check. We’re a big station here and we have ten or so buses come in every three hours. Tell me what they look l ike. It might take me a couple of days to get back to you.”
    “Couple of days? I don’t think so . Y ou get back to me today, within the hour. This woman and her b r…kid are wanted in a robbery. Stole about ten grand and I want it…the victim wants it back, now. The w oman is tall, about five-nine. But skinny, long, dark