Chapter 31

“Jesse…asked me to help him with something last night.” There. That was true, and it didn’t give anything away.

“When? After you went to bed?” David put his hand down on the paper Jonah was pretending to study. “Was there something so important that he needed to take you out of your bed?”

He had never seen David look at him so intensely before. Heat crept up the back of his neck until his ears burned and his mouth was dry. “He didn’t force me or anything. I was glad to go.”

“You were glad to go where?”

“Does it matter?”

David leaned back, his face becoming impassive. “I guess not. I just want to know why people aren’t safe to sleep in their own beds around here.”