‘Freya sent me,’ Ronin gestured back through the budding branches at the path that led back to the canopy, breakfast and their companions out of sight. ‘I appreciate that you don’t want to be around me, but it was hard to refuse her request.’
‘I don’t,’ Thea replied as she turned to face the man, folding her arms across her chest, she frowned as he stared at her, ‘I don’t..not want to be around you, Ronin,’ her nose wrinkled, ‘what I mean to say…is that I don’t think about you enough, to feel anything about you.’
‘You don’t?’ He closed the distance, but stopped before he could reach out to her, ‘you don’t think about me at all?’
‘There is nothing between us,’ she repeated her words of their first reunion, ‘so no reason to consider you, at all.’
He nodded slowly and she hated the way th
