Chapter TWENTY-TWO-ZEKE

I don’t like this.

I haven’t liked it since she kissed my cheek this morning, promised she’d be careful, and walked into that damn school like it was just another Wednesday.

Like her psychotic ex isn’t out there somewhere plotting gods-know-what.

Like she isn’t carrying my fucking soul in that beautiful, fragile human body.

But Casey insisted she needed to work today.

Tie up loose ends.

Finish charts for the kids who rely on her for meds.

Leave things better than she found them, because that’s the kind of woman she is.

And I admire the hell out of that—her grace, her strength.

Just like I admire the fact that my woman is practically a damn doctor.

We haven’t talked in detail yet about what she wants next, career-wise, but it doesn’t matter. Whatever Casey decides, I’m one hundred percent behind her.

If she wants to pick back up where she left off before that bastard hijacked her life, then that’s what she’ll do. No question.