Chapter 37When Mavis heard Jonah slam the door shut at the end of the train car, she rolled over on her back and stared up at the ceiling. She felt liberated and guilty at the same time.
She felt liberated because she'd finally unloaded on somebody for what had happened to her as a little girl. She hadn't unloaded on Jonah's parents, the ones who'd hurt her, but Jonah had been the next best thing. After thirty years of bottling up the anger, she'd finally let it loose.
But then she felt guilty, too. Jonah might have been the next best person to yell at, but did he really deserve it? He wasn't the one who'd turned her away, was he?
As for watching her back, what more could Jonah have done? Mavis didn't really think he could have single-handedly killed Rapiarre the Lampreyus. He pr
