He’d heard the rumors and was getting me back for using him.“Is my record a problem?” he asked.“Well, uh, I . . .”“I did my time. I paid my debt. You are in no danger from me. I would never hurt you or anyone.”Of course you’d say that, especially if you had plans to hurt me, I thought. Wait a minute—what was I thinking? He was joking about serving time, and that was the end of it.Or was it? He seemed awfully grim, and a six-year sentence would mean a serious crime.“Well?” he asked with a mocking smile. “Are we going?”I climbed on the back of the motorcycle without saying a word. Lily would kill me if she could see me now. She’d want me to be absolutely sure of the truth before I went another mile. Yet I’d known Gage for months, and he’d never given me any reason to fear him. Aside from Sadie, he was the nearest thing I had to a friend in Flagstaff—which was really sad if I stopped to think about it.Anyway, Serenity trusted him. She didn’t like my dad or even Lily, and she didn’t like Julian.
