*Chloe*

Things changed after we foiled the kidnapping attempt and Kendrick died. Well, some things changed. You know the old saying, though it does bear repeating. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

What had changed? Alex and I had grown much closer, more intimate than I’d thought possible. Neither of us wanted to hold back any longer. Saying the dreaded L word to each other hadn’t bound us at all. In fact, it had set us free.

Now that ...