I sat there stunned for a moment. He wasn't telling me my place. He was asking me about my feelings.
"I am his," I answered sadly. "Though I don't want to be."
"Then why are you? Why don't you leave this place?"
"I can't. It isn't that simple." I was about to tell him that I had no way off of this island, and even if I did, I had no place to go once I was off. I had no money, no friends, no family.
"It is that simple, Elizabeth. If your heart is open, it is that simple."