Page 3 of Fence

“As though any harm would’ve come to them with the others there,” I muttered. “What, is he that afraid she’ll run out on him while he’s gone?”

“Ouch,” Gate laughed, shaking his head with a rueful grin. “You’d better never let him catch you even hinting at such a thing.”

“Yes, I’m sure he’ll have my guts for garters,” I replied with a head shake of my own. “Being in love sure made him sensitive.”

“About nothing but her and the boy,” Miles pointed out. “I suppose there are certain topics which are off-limits. What can you do?”

Precisely.

There was nothing to be done about members of my family bringing outsiders into the cave with us.

How was it we’d managed to survive on our own for a thousand years, yet over the course of several months we’d wound up with four new extended family members? It was as if Pierce finding Jasmine was the first domino required to fall, the one which knocked all the others down as a result.

Who would fall next?

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