‘Dallmin, I need you to calm down. No one’s going to hurt you. Relax. Do you want some music?’ He shook his head, but his shuddering subsided as he forced himself to obey me. I waited for him to settle down, wondering how many times I would have to sit on the floor with him before he would learn to cope in our society. Eventually, he met my eyes, with an expression like a calf that had touched an electric fence and couldn’t figure out what had bitten him. I waited for him to pluck up the courage to tell me what hideous thing he had done to make Bane so angry.
‘I met someone, Lainie. A woman. Her name is Britt. She has golden hair.’
My jaw dropped. That was not what I’d been expecting.
‘We were running. Bane said it wasn’t a race so I slowed down to look at everything.’
And Bane wouldn’
