Chapter 34

ALANA ALEJANDRO OPENED THE CAR DOOR AND TOOK MY HAND, HELPING ME OUT. He’d told Jacob to park down the block so that we weren’t pulling up in his fancy car outside a shelter where the residents had very little. The fact that he’d thought of that surprised me. Maybe he wasn’t such an uncaring monster, after all? He wasn’t dressed in his usual suit either, but was wearing jeans and a polo shirt, so his muscular arms and some of his tattoos were on display. Even dressed casually, he still looked hotter than the sun. He kept hold of my hand as we walked down the street. I swallowed as we neared the shelter. ‘Are you nervous?’ he asked me. God, why did he have to know me so well! ‘A little,’ I admitted. ‘Do you think I’m going to embarrass you?’ he said with a cock of one eyebrow. ‘No,’ I replied. ‘It’s just this has been my world for the past eight weeks, and now you’re going to see it, and it feels kind of strange.