Chapter 9 Taking Risks

• Millie-Rose POV
• The first thing I did the moment the bus lurched forward was toss my phone out the window. Alpha Braham’s possessive words echoed loudly in my mind, and I wasn’t willing to risk him tracking me down. The phone was a connection to the life I was fleeing, and if I wanted distance…real distance, I had to sever every trace.
• I lost all sense of time almost immediately. Hours blurred into each other, melting into one long, shapeless stretch of motion. Faces changed, landscapes shifted, and yet the exhaustion clung to me like a second skin.