Chapter Ninety-Seven

Nicholas's POV:

I don't know what came over me, but, I needed to test her. I tried to find out if we had genuinely passed the trying to escape bridge. Flying colors. She'd passed. The way she'd handled the situation was just so perfect. She could've sold the jewelry to get out of here, get away from me, as she had always wanted. She didn't have liquid cash, but the jewelry would have given her enough money to cover her expenses to leave and possibly stay in hiding for a while. Secondly, her thinking was out of this world. She didn't go to the cops. Or report the incident or do something that would draw unnecessary attention.