Chapter 15
We slept and read, dozed and read and sang songs together until people started coming in from the other rooms in the house. Finn brought the woman down, sat her on the couch, and brought her a glass of wine. She introduced herself. Her name was Talia.
Then Finn went and brought me a glass of wine. “Shh, you don’t need to know where we found this. Just enjoy.” Then he took Miranda upstairs to wash up for dinner.
I smelled something good cooking, though I had electric appliances, so didn’t figure that out until later. Burk had brought the neighbor’s barbeque grill from their back porch over onto ours and was cooking right outside the kitchen door. His cleverness and quick thinking never failed to amaze me.
While we were alone, Talia said, “I should have just let them r**e me.
