TWENTY-FOUR
AFTER PACING ON THE lake’s shore for a while, Tess sat on the bank tossing stones into the black abyss. It got cold and she got tired. For a brief moment, she considered going to sleep right there. But that might lead the men to believe they’d beaten her.
Even though it had been a mistake to trust this Daire, he was the one who’d done wrong. If anyone should be ashamed to face anyone, it should be him. H was no saint either. Not that she’d claim to be, though she’d never gone around issuing orders to strangers and talking down to them, demanding respect.
So she’d left the water and returned to the trailer, ignoring Daire, as he ignored her, to go inside. As much as she didn’t want to sleep in her and Danny’s sheets, doing anything else could imply defeat. And she was not def
