Sam took the clothes over to the bathroom and changed. He washed his face and stared at himself in the mirror for a long moment. He tried to put the wall back up, the one that meant he’d be safe from Vaughn again, but his brain refused to cooperate. He was an idiot, plain and simple, and he should run for his life. But he wouldn’t leave the kids. They were his Achilles heel. Vaughn had him well and truly hooked and he didn’t even know it.
