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stuff.”
    “And of course you
grabbed leather pants and a t-shirt,” she says with a smile.
    “Of course.”
    “Back to Brayden.
What did he threaten you with?”
    This is where it gets
tricky. How much do I tell? How much can I tell? Not much. “Brayden thinks I have some information he wants.
He said he’d use the force of his army to torture it out of me if
necessary.”
    “What information?”
    “I don’t want to
talk about it.”
    “We can’t help and
protect you if we don’t know the truth. You can trust us—me—you
should know that by now.”
    I really wish I could,
but it’s not just me I’m protecting. “I can’t. I’m sorry.”
    I see that she wants to
argue, but she doesn’t. Instead, she leans over to take my hand in
hers. “One day, I hope you’ll be ready. When that day comes, you
call me and I’ll come. No matter what.”
    “Thank you,” I tell
her squeezing her hand.
    She nods, and gives me
a sad smile. I know I’ve hurt her by not telling her my secrets,
but I have no choice. “Let’s try and figure out how to keep you
protected since you’re going to have to go back. We made a
commitment, and we have to keep it.”
    “I know.”
    “If that young man
thinks he or his people are going to harm you in any way, though,
he’s horribly mistaken. Once Reina gets here we can talk more about
what we can do.”
    “Thank you.”
    “You don’t need to
thank me. I love you, Darcy. We all do. The Foundation and Society
have always come first, but that doesn’t mean we won’t protect
all of you.”
    Honestly, that’s what
I’m most afraid of—not the protecting, but the Society coming
first. I know it has to because they can’t risk everything we do
for just one person, but that doesn’t bode well for me.
    I haven’t seen the
man she’s talking about in person for years, but if I called him,
he’d meet me. If it comes to that, I’m going to lose the family
I’ve built for myself. Hell, even if I don’t, they’ll find out.
Brayden won’t keep quiet forever, and the man who set this all in
motion would give me up in a second. The smart thing would be for me
to run now, but I won’t. I’m scared, but I’m not a coward, and
it’s time I paid for my past no matter the cost.

Chapter 4
    Darcy
    It’s almost three
hours later when Reina finally arrives at the hotel. She called me
when she was still at Brayden’s house to make sure I was willing to
go back if all of their precautions for me were agreed to. I could
tell she really meant it, and maybe that means a change for the
Society. Reina will still put the whole first, but she won’t risk
any of us for it. I think she’ll work a way around anything that
comes up. Not to discount the women who came before us, but I can’t
imagine the Society had anyone smarter than Isa, Ainsley, and Audrey
ever working for them at once. The rest of us aren’t too shabby,
either. If anyone can keep me safe, it’s them.
    “Darce, are you
really okay to go back?” she asks as soon as the door is closed.
    “If you can keep me
from being tortured by my fiancé, then yes.”
    “That little bastard
isn’t laying a hand on you,” Matt says, practically growling.
    “Well, unless she
wants him to. He is pretty handsome.”
    “I’m right here,
Rei. Remember me, your husband?”
    “How could I forget,”
she says with a smile. It doesn’t reach her eyes, though, and I
know that she has her own shit to deal with. She shouldn’t have to
deal with mine.
    “We should get down
to business. I’m sure Matt can entertain himself somewhere,”
Helen says.
    “Matt’s not going
anywhere,” Reina tells her.
    “This is Society
business, not Corrigan.”
    “Matt—along with
Nate, Aiden, and Jake—have helped us all in immeasurable ways. They
are part of the Society, whether it’s official or not.”
    “We didn’t agree to
that. There’s been no vote.”
    “I’m in charge now,
Mallory, and while I welcome input from everyone, this is