He Thought He Was Just Helping a Vulnerable Stranger! Her True Identity

required depending on absolutely no one. But there was something grounding about this man. This exhausted stranger who had done what a room full of people wouldn’t.

“Okay,” she said softly.

He slid into the opposite seat with careful, deliberate movements, as if keenly aware that she might still bolt, that she might still decide solitude was safer than continue reading …