She started dancing. I saw her pressing her hips against Edison’s thighs, making me grip Gram’s reins tighter until my knuckles were white. Edison must have felt my sudden change of mood.
“Sorry, I already have a partner for the dance.”
A smooth way to reject a lady.
The irritation in me faded when I heard him say the words and the woman looked up at me and gave me a smirk before she danced away from Edison and into the middle of the crowd. But even before she was lost out of sight, I saw her make a final look at me, which made me a bit worried. We couldn’t trust anyone. There could be a possibility that Ralph had little birds in this place who would chirp our location to him.
I decided to go down from Gram’s back and walk beside Edison, not because I wanted to push females away from h
