Shady

She nodded sullenly, accepting the apology but staying tense. It’d be much harder to get away with him being able to tap into her thoughts anytime he wanted. She’d need ...

“Fine. I won’t.” She might. “But stay out of my mind. That’s a million billion times worse than reading someone else’s journals.”

She glared at him. “Stay out of my head.”

Ky nodded. Hell, maybe she wouldn’t even wait two weeks. He would have Lyra and guards on the way back — what did he need her for? He didn’t. She’d ...

She huffed a sigh. “Depending on what?” She wasn’t staying here another month. And he couldn’t make her.

Ky nodded. “…How soon?”

“…oh.” She wrapped her arms around herself. That was good to hear… but frustrating. Why hadn’t he just kept talking, then? If she truly was helping?

Ky hesitated, glancing at him. “…You’re sure of that?”

She glanced at him, then away. “He did it immediately after talking to me. I was clearly the trigger.”

She stared at her knees. “Okay.” He was wrong. But gods knew he’d never admit that now.

Ky’s stomach clenched but she nodded again.

She nodded, deciding it wasn’t worth the fight.

“Sending me home would have been better.” She wasn’t going to let him pin Tomhas’s presence on herself. Besides, Jerica had helped more than Tomhas being her sulking.

She nodded, glancing over at her father. “He shouldn’t have come here.”

“I’ve been saying that for weeks,” she pointed out.