"You think I'm in the wrong right now, I know.

But eventually, you'll see.

It's you and I who belong together."

I should be terrified. I should want to escape.

Yet the closer he keeps me, the more fear becomes the only thing I trust.

He is both the nightmare I'm trapped inside, and the only place I feel safe.

I know I should run, but he's already rewritten my instincts.

Because I was his the moment he decided I would be.

Reader Note: This is a newly-edited version of part two, previously published in the original edition of Don't Leave Me.

It is now published as Book Two of a two-book duet.