Chapter 83

“Look,” I started slowly thinking about each word carefully before I said it. “I don’t think this is a good idea. It’s a long and dangerous road and as you can tell it’s not an easy trip. I don’t want any more lives put in danger.”

“We know it’s not gonna be easy. That’s why we figured you could use two more sets of eyes and hands to help,” Cynthia said being rational.

I opened and closed my mouth trying to think of a different excuse. I could think of a million reasons why I didn’t want her to come along. She was shady. She was rude. She was so arrogant, thinking she knew everything. She didn’t believe that this journey was going to work. On and on the reasons went round and round in my head. But there was not a single reason that didn’t apply to someone else in the group as well.

“But… umm…” was all that ended up coming out of my mouth instead of a valid excuse.