Chapter 55: Odd one

The journalists kept shouting questions, but John ignored them and led her down the steps. "Do you think I am a weak human female that cannot walk on her own," she asked when they reached the bottom.

Aurora and Balthazar had reached them, and Aurora laughed and answered before he could. "He's only being polite, Anatu. Remember what I told you about social manners."

"It is confusing," Anatu said, and she sounded curiously young at that moment.

They all walked farther into the garden. He noticed her glancing at the sky every now and then - panicked stares that she tried to hide from him. She shivered and clutched her arms around herself before she straightened and acted as if she didn't feel the cold. Again, he was glad of this sign of weakness. Weaknesses could be exploited.