TEN
The men were whispering about her, Shea was aware of it. She just hadn’t figured out if their whispers were in support of her or if they were judging her. She’d noticed Kipling on her tail a few times that day and Lev too, and couldn’t work out why they’d loiter in the shadows watching her rather than just doing their jobs or approaching her.
It could be that the men were afraid of her after what they’d witnessed in the mess. Raid had taken his fury out on her last night and by their reckoning she’d gotten away with angering him in a way none of them ever would.
To some degree, the men were right, she had used a tool that was at her disposal and not theirs. If the next time he got upset, she wasn’t the one facing his wrath, they may fear what Raid would do to them.
When Shea went t
