Relief made Gizmo"s knees weak when Jill asked to stay. She was willing to try. The fear of her walking away and never looking back had set his stomach to churning, now it started to settle.
Try. That"s all they could do but Gizmo wasn"t fool enough know it wouldn"t be difficult. He knew he"d have to explain some things to her and give her a chance to walk away before he told her too much. He could keep secrets for a little while, but he didn"t know if he could do it forever, from the person who knew him most intimately, who saw him day in and day out in every mood and every situation. Someone like that was hard to hide things from. Well, little things would be okay, but his life didn"t have a lot of little secrets, it had a lot of big ones. Huge. Life or death secrets. And if she couldn
