Cameron watched me, his brow furrowing. \u201cI\u2019m going to take a wild guess and say that he didn\u2019t tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was your first clue?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe look on your face.\u201d Cameron sighed. \u201cI thought you didn\u2019t do this to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe try not to,\u201d I said, crossing my arms. \u201cHe\u2019s probably trying to figure out how to tell me in a way that\u2019s not going to make me go sideways on him. Are you taking Thordin?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. He\u2019s staying here to safeguard Neve.\u201d Cameron took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly. \u201cSomeone has to keep watch over her.\u201d<\/p>\n
My eyes narrowed. \u201cIf anyone does any watching over your wife, she\u2019d like it to be you<\/em>, Cameron.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI know, but I\u2019m more diplomatic than he is, so I don\u2019t have much choice. Phelan can\u2019t go.\u201d<\/p>\n I grimaced. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t let him go.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cExactly. So he can\u2019t. That leaves Thom and I as your best bet, so we\u2019ll go. He was going to see if your brother and Davon were willing to come. We talked about having them scout out a good place for a trading outpost while he and I rode on.\u201d<\/p>\n The more he kept talking, the less and less I liked what I was hearing. It wasn\u2019t that the ideas weren\u2019t good\u2014they were\u2014but I wasn\u2019t comfortable with all of them being gone at once. It sounded like the perfect time for fate to kick us in the balls again, like she\u2019d been doing for months since the end of the world. It felt like every time we needed a break, things went sideways.<\/p>\n Nearly ten months had passed since the end of everything we knew and instead of things feeling more settled, a little less hectic, it felt like every second we spared to just stop and breathe was a second in which something started to slip toward chaos.<\/p>\n I was more than a little tired of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cameron watched me, his brow furrowing. \u201cI\u2019m going to take a wild guess and say that he didn\u2019t tell you.\u201d \u201cWhat was your first clue?\u201d \u201cThe look on your face.\u201d Cameron sighed. \u201cI thought you didn\u2019t do this to each … Continue reading