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His expression turns serious. “I don’t need your thanks. I did what anyone would’ve done.”
“Not many men would’ve been able to do what you’ve done.”
“Your humble gratitude is accepted.”
“You haven’t answered me yet.”
“About the phone?” He scoffs. “Sabella was hiking up and down that mountain alone. I didn’t like it. I wanted her to be able to call someone if she needed help.”
“And you didn’t tell me?”
“You fired me. I had nothing to say to you.” He adds with a softer inclination, “She asked me not to tell you about her visits to the village.”
“How long has she been going there?”
“I ran into her at the market a while ago.”
“The market? Why? What was she doing there?”
He pinches one eye closed, considering me. After a beat, he says, “She was working for money.”
I frown. “Money?”
“Yeah, you know, money—the stuff that buys things.”
Ignoring his sarcasm, I ask, “Like what kind of things?”
“Ask Mrs. Campana.”
“The pharmacist?”
“Everyone knows Sabella caught lice in your house.”
So that’s why she ventured to the village on her own. And Heidi protected Sabella by telling me she’d gotten the treatment. Well, she didn’t say that exactly. My housekeeper chose her line carefully. She said she’dtaken careof the problem.
My stomach tightens imaging all the dangers Sabella could’ve encountered, not to mention the distance she walked.
He pins me with an accusing look. “She also needed a pregnancy test. You’re a piece of work, know that?”
At the mention of the pregnancy test, I ball my hands into fists.
“Is she…?” he asks.
It takes everything and then some to answer that question, but when I open my mouth, no sound comes out.
“The baby?” he asks.
I push down the feelings, showing him nothing. “No.”
“Fuck. I’m sorry.”
“Noted.”
“There’ll be another one.”
“It’s best you don’t bring that up.”
“I understand.”
