Chapter 243

• Jesse nodded, worried if he said the wrong thing that one of two things would happen, Thera might take offense or Leah would revert to the woman that he’d first seen and stab him. He didn’t know why it bothered him this much that she’d been afraid, close to terrified of him when she stood there shaking and pointing a spear at him, but he didn’t want her to feel that way.
• Stepping back, she opened the door wider. “Do we sit inside? Or-or out here on the deck?”
• “Inside is fine.” He grinned and tilted his head to the side, “the walk up here was,” he glanced behind him, still feeling like someone might walk up behind him, “a long one.”