“Really? What made you change your mind?” “Because you’re hard to resist,” he said, clearly amused at my surprise. “And . . . do you remember what Rhonda said?” There was another shock, hearing her brought up. But then I recalled his face when he’d listened to her and what he’d said about his grandmother. I tried to remember Rhonda’s exact words. “Something about how you’re going to lose something. . . .” I apparently didn’t remember it so well. “‘You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.’”
