Emmeline should have just left. She had wanted to leave. But she'd stopped when she'd said something to him. And then he was saying something that piqued her curiosity.

She watched as he looked over his own shoulder back to her. Brow furrowed with obvious confusion. She turned back to face him but didn't actually move toward him. "Why?" she asked. A simple and easy question but one she was truly curious to hear the answer to.

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