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Chapter 23

He didn’t listen. Rather, he stepped deeper inside the room, closed the door behind him, and locked it.

“Is that necessary to lock the door?”

“But the things I have to tell you are private. Just between us.”

I shook my head. “Not here. Let me throw a shirt on and a pair of socks. We can go to your room and talk. Or the gazebo. Many conversations take place there.”

He found a corner of the bottom of my bed and sat, patted one of my legs. “Here’s fine, though. We’re both already comfortable. There’s no reason to go to my room or the gazebo.”

“But…”