I blinked in quick succession, a rope of guilt cinching my insides. My mouth had gone dry. “If you mean to ask me if I can be trusted,” I said carefully. “Then the answer is yes.”
“That’s the thing,” Gunner said lowly. “What you say don’t matter. It’s what you do. Whether you take the information and run off with it.”
“I’m staying,” I said, far more boldly than I felt. “I’m not boarding some ship.”
“Right you are,” Tess Colson said gravely. “Because if you ever tried, darlin’, we’d bring you back, dead or alive.” She downed the last of her whiskey. “That’s the thing about knowin’ too much. It’s dangerous.”
The threat caused ire to prickle on my tongue. “I’d say threatening a Charmer of earth is rather dangerous, is it not?”
Movement from my left. Donny rising from his chair. From his
