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afraid of what they
could mean.
    She heard
Bane’s footsteps behind her.
    “I’m not here
to ruin your life,” he said. “And I’m not going to pressure you just because
you have come here.”
    He pulled out
a chair for Harper to sit down. He sat down also.
    “Do you know
where you are?” he asked her.
    “Trillionaire
Shifter Club,” Harper said after a moment.
    “If you left
this house right now, and climbed over the gate, you’d find yourself in a world
you’d never been to before,” Bane said. “You wouldn’t be able to go back and
find your man. You wouldn’t be able to find any of your friends or
acquaintances, or any of the places you’d ever been to. Because you have left
that old world behind. This is a new one.”
    He picked up
his glass and drank from it.
    “I don’t
understand what you’re saying,” Harper said slowly. “Are you saying I can’t go
home?”
    “You can and
you will,” Bane answered. “But understand how far you are away from it now.
This place, this sanctuary, is so special. So infinitely one of a kind. There
is magic here, magic that even I don’t understand the full meaning of. Because
it’s different every time.”
    “Why are you
telling me this?” Harper asked.
    “Because
you’ll ask yourself these questions later. You’ll try to find this place but
you won’t be able to. And of course, you’ll never see me again either.”
    “Wow,” Harper
whispered. “I feel like we’re breaking up or something.”
    “I guess,”
Bane said. “In a way, we are.”

 
      CHAPTER
SEVENTEEN
     
     
    It was all gone now. All of it.
    It was over.
    Harper was in
the back of the limousine again, on her way home. Not back to Cordelia’s but
the house she lived with Joshua. Where she belonged.
    She had been
very wary of leaving Cordelia alone in with Bane and Chill but they both
assured her they’d take her back straight away home the following morning.
Harper had tried to wake Cordelia up to see if she was well enough to go back
with her anyway, and she had woken in a momentary daze.
    “I want to be
here,” she had told Harper out of earshot of the guys. “I really like Chill. He
seems like a great guy…”
    “I’ll stay
here with you,” Harper insisted. “Make sure they don’t do anything –”
    “No,”
Cordelia replied. “Go home and be with Josh. I can see how much it hurts you to
be here. Sorry for dragging you into this…”
    So Harper had
agreed to leave.
    Bane wouldn’t
look at her properly. He mumbled his goodbye. Harper knew he wasn’t happy. He
didn’t say it, but she knew she had somehow hurt him by coming here.
    It was a
stupid night.
    A stupid,
stupid night.
    As the
vehicle approached her house, she wondered if Josh’s friends would still be
there. Whether they’d all be awake still. It was possible. It was only a
quarter to one. She hoped Josh would be up, because she wanted to talk to him.
She wanted to tell him everything.
    Even as she
had been in the shifter club with Bane, she had begun to feel her love for Josh
slipping. Like it was something she could forget while being there. She wasn’t
sure she believed Bane when he talked about the club being inside a world
separate to her own. But there was distance. There were borders and walls she
had crossed to get there. Now she was coming back, Bane and his club felt like
a faraway dream. Something that only happened inside her mind.
    This here.
    This start to
her driveway.
    This was the
true reality.
    “Thank you,”
Harper said to the Chauffeur before he took off down the empty road. She turned
and walked up through the front garden and towards the front door. She unlocked
it with her set of keys and entered.
    Inside, the
hallway was trashed. Half a bag of corn chips was spread out in the centre of
it, without any sign of the bag, and a couple of beers had been completely
spilt in the barrier between here and the kitchen.
    Inside there,
someone had managed to vomit all over the