‘It’s dangerous, Aileen.’
Aileen narrowed her eyes. ‘I can take care of myself. I-’
‘No. And that’s my ultimate answer.’ His voice was hard.
Aileen felt her blood boil. Why was the man so stubborn! She was no child who needed babysitting. And she wasn’t stupid to go asking for trouble. ‘I never asked you to join me in the first place.’
Ignoring him, Aileen turned around and dragged a stray chair over to where the noose had hung from the wooden beam last night.
Rolling his eyes, Callan knelt to examine a spot on the floor.
Whatever he’d come here to check on, he wasn’t scrutinising. This pretence was to get her off his scent.
She was not one to back down. She’d do her own thing.
Aileen climbed up to analyse the wooden beam. Had Marley been tall enough to reach it and tie the rope he
