“I thought you were scared of them”
Theo said to Mary while wiping the table. They had made the lunch together, with Theo doing all the cooking and Mary helping him out.
“they were dead.” She answered with a shrug. like she wasn't the one who had stepped away with a scowl at just the look of the dead lobsters.
Theo nodded, smiling at her. they had just finished lunch and were cleaning up, refraining from any talks about the stranger at the coast and the incoming danger.
After cleaning and tidying up after lunch they were in the living room, to pay some concentrated attention to the matter at hand.
“Could that be any of the step- children?” Theo asked, taking a seat on the couch. “The one who hired the man.”
Mary sat next to him, sinking into his embrace. “No. they wouldn’t go that
