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he’d asked her to visit Jack’s mother.
     
    “I don’t know. Sometimes it seems like your mind isn’t here. I’m not one to tell my secrets to strangers, but maybe you should look into seeing a therapist. You went through a lot, and you still are. That abduction couldn’t have been easy to deal with.” Billy made sense, and she’d thought about going for counseling but the thing she needed to talk about would be more about Jack and less about the abduction. Plus she didn’t know if she wanted to go through all of that again. Going through what happened minute by minute. She didn’t get nightmares of the situation, just wet dreams of the man she’d lost.
     
    “I’ll think about it, okay, that’s the best I can give you.” Natalie wasn’t going to lie to the man who was like her very best friend in the world right now, so she would give him her truth.
     
    Billy seemed like he was good with that answer and moved on to something else. Too bad that only left her to sit and consider what she’d done the last time she was with Jack. He came over to talk and she’d not let him get a word in edgewise because she had decided to make him feel a bit of what she’d felt after he basically told her they still couldn’t be seen together. She had gone from excited that he was coming over to talk to pissed they had to hide. Fuck that; she’d be hidden no more. After all she’d gone through, she knew she wasn’t going to be able to sit back and be a prisoner to the thoughts and feelings of others, and she needed a man who was proud to walk out in the sunshine with her.
     
    Her phone rang, and she didn’t recognize the phone number, so she didn’t answer it but just waited for it to go to voicemail. Whoever called didn’t leave one. Should she be worried? Hell no. She didn’t have time to sit back and be worried either. Maybe she should move out of town and start over. Get a new lease on life. Billy could take over the shop, and she could take another chance on a new life.
     
    With that thought in her head, she went to the back to get on the computer. Now that she’d made her decision, she needed to figure out where she wanted to go and how fast she’d be able to get there.
     

 
     
    CHAPTER NINE
     
    The day had been a long but productive one. She’d talked to Billy about her plans to leave soon, and he was on board with everything so she considered that a win, but when he came back with a plan to buy into the shop and told her what he would send her monthly from her portion of the sales, she was ecstatic. Her mind didn’t even work like that. Billy had talked about his counter proposal as he drove her home, and they talked about how she’d have extra money for her new start. Natalie was on cloud nine.
     
    Walking up the stairs to her apartment, she saw a large figure waiting for her by her door and she froze. Where she didn’t think the abduction had affected her that much, here where the rubber met the road, she would have to disagree. She wasn’t going to live her life like this. The decision to be a woman that a man had to be proud of also meant she couldn’t sit in a corner and cower. She had a knife, a small caliber pistol, and mace in her bag that she wasn’t afraid and was trained to use.
     
    “Can I help you?” Natalie called from down the hallway. She was prepared to do damage, but she also wanted to live another day. If that meant being cautious, cautious she would be.
     
    “Natalie, it’s me.”
     
    The whoosh of breath that left her almost hurt, it was expelled so quickly. She didn’t think she’d ever been that happy to see Jack, but happy she was. Not that she wanted him to know about it though. Picking up her stride, she was at her door in seconds, and since she had her key in hand in case she had to use it to claw out someone’s eyes, it was very handy.
     
    She unlocked the door and went in the house, leaving the door open behind her. He could either come in or not; she