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dredge up the pain of the past?
She flicked her gaze to her grandma, who had her nose
wrinkled in confusion. She was silent. Her grandma was
always silent, always assessing. She was one of the wisest,
kindest people Haley knew. Wise because she reserved
judgement until she had all the information. She’d taught
Haley that sometimes silence was best. It was a lesson hard
learned.
“Does she want to see me? We came here because…uh…
but we can leave. We can leave right now.” Haley tapped her
foot, a nervous tick, while she waited for Snake to tell her
what he knew.
She was shocked when he reached out and tousled her hair.
No one had ever done that to her. Not when she was a kid.
Certainly not now that she was an adult. He made a mess of
the dark strands that she hurriedly reached up to claw back
into place. “Hey!”
He laughed. He had a deep, booming laugh. That surprised
her too. She wasn’t sure that she’d ever heard it before. They’d
spent almost every waking minute together. She should have
tried harder to draw that from him.
“I don’t think that you should go. I think she’d be very
happy to see you.”
“Do you…really think that, or are you just saying it?”
Snake chortled. Actually chortled. “I really think that. She’s
missed you.”
Haley had a strange inkling. All those times in the past
month that she’d felt like there was someone watching her, but
she’d never seen anyone, was she being watched?
“What exactly is your job title now?” She stared Snake
