That caught me off guard.
“Afraid for him?” he said
“Afraid for him?” I asked quietly.
He nodded, that faraway look in his eyes again. “I’m afraid he’ll do something he can’t take back. Something he’ll regret for the rest of his life. Not just regret… something that will end him.”
He looked right at me, dead in the eye, like he was begging me to understand. Like he was handing me something dangerous and delicate, and trusting me not to drop it.
And I understood one thing clearly, my life was not just out of my hands. It was in danger.
My eyes drifted toward the room we’d turned into Leon’s study space. And suddenly, I wasn’t just afraid for myself anymore.
I had everything on the line.
“Do you think he would do something to Leon?”
I asked, my voice trembling.
“He can’t do som
