Chapter Seventeen
Discarded StirrupsEdin dozed on her booster seat between Mac and Phoenix. Her head sagged sideways until it touched Mac’s wiry shoulder. Wiri took refuge on the spare pull-down seat in the truck’s boot, his profile thoughtful as he gazed through a side window. Logan drove and Hana planned her evening in her mind, running through scenarios which might lend her time with her husband.
It was all academic in the end.
School had wiped Edin out, sapping all her effusive energy and leaving her an empty husk of limbs and tired eyes. She sank into her bed without fuss, her eyes closed before the story finished. Hana dropped her arms and stopped acting out the Bear Who Didn’t Care tale for her benefit.
“You okay?” she whispered to Phoenix, rising and crossing the room to her da
