The good week ended the way good weeks tended to in Thornevale lately, with a piece of information that unsettled everything Wren thought she understood about how careful Callum was actually being with her.
She found out by accident, overhearing a fragment of conversation between Marcus and Toby in the pack house kitchen while she waited for Callum to finish a call, something about a second team being pulled from the northern rotation without her name coming up at all, without anyone apparently thinking to tell her that the security arrangement around her house had changed.
"When were you going to mention that," she said, the moment Callum walked back into the room, her voice sharper than she meant it to be, the good feeling of the past week curdling fast into something more familiar and
