Chapter 41

“What were you thinking!” she yelped at him, rhetorically. “You weren’t, were you? That’s two of us he’s got to pick away at now and we have to make sure our histories match!”

“I didn’t…”

She didn’t let him interrupt. “I told him we were foster siblings. That I was adopted. I can’t even remember what I said! What if he works it out?”

“I don’t know!” Lew shouted, finally. “Okay? I don’t know. And anyway, I didn’t point him to you. I don’t know how he found you. I told him Archie had helped me to find you and I had to check you were all right. I didn’t tell him anything else.” He stress-ate a piece of toast. “And it’s not you he’s interested in. It’s me. What did he ask you?”