Lana closed her eyes, listening to the quiet sounds of Martin breathing in the next room. The man who'd always been there, watching, noticing, caring in ways she'd never fully understood. The man who was now her partner in something dangerous and uncertain.
*What is it to you if I'm in harms way?*
She'd asked him that question, and he'd dodged it. But she'd seen the truth in his eyes, just for a moment, before he'd looked away.
She just wasn't sure she was ready to examine what it meant.
The exhaustion pulled at her, heavy and inescapable. Lana let herself sink into the mattress, into the stillness of the apartment, into the strange safety of this place that wasn't hers. Tomorrow would bring decisions and danger and a path that couldn't be undone.
Tomorrow, she would become someone el
