CHAPTER 43

Danica had been following Gio’s scent, hoping to hunt him down and get him to stop brooding when she heard Duda’s words: "You know, you could just ask her to stay for good." It was said that eavesdroppers tended to hear things they didn’t like. In this case, the saying had proven to be true. It wasn’t as though she’d thought things were any different than how Gio firmly stated to Duda, and it wasn’t as though she’d thought he cared for her.

Yet the effect was still like a hot lance slicing through her. Why? For the same reason that a dull pain had struck her chest and her windpipe had begun to ache…She loved Gio Wright. The realization punched the breath from her lungs.