Page 198 of Bound By Her

Just finished visiting Loretta in the hospital.

X: What happened?

She fell down a flight of stairs

I can’t help but feel like I had something to do with it.

X: Jonathan?

He knows.

X: Tell me.

X: Adria.

I got a letter today, from an unknown sender, with the photo.

X: The one you two sent him?

Yes.

X: Is she okay?

They don’t know yet.

X: Want me to look into it?

Please.

X: Have you decided on the boys?

I can’t do it. Tell Teo the deal is off.

X: That is disappointing.

X: To be clear, if I do that you lose any chance at the airport being moved. All your plans for the past ten years go up in smoke.

X: What about your mother?

It was stupid. Thinking I could change the past. I wasn’t making a difference, anyway.

X: You can make a difference. What about his additional offer to gift you a new parcel of land? We get that land and we can take Jonathan down. All those years of abuse, you want to just let him go?

Nobut I cannot see another option. I can’t keep letting him hurt people I care about just so I can get revenge.

X: The boys will be perfectly safe with Vega. You are not hurting them.

So, he has a name.

X: They have to go to someone.

They have no contacts in Mexico, they will be vulnerable there. I just can’t do it.

X: Who then?

I’ll figure it out.

X: You’re upset. You are not thinking clearly. I’mgoing to wait to tell Teo in case you change your mind.

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