Chapter Fifteen
“So, how long did you say you were going to be staying?” Patty asked, rocking on her heels and looking pointedly at where Asahi was sitting at Mike’s old desk.
“I didn’t,” Asahi stated.
He ignored Patty’s glare. She had been doing that a lot since he arrived late this afternoon. The one thing he couldn’t ignore was her tapping the pencil against the notebook in her hand. It might have been a nervous gesture, except for the glare she was presently shooting at him, which almost certainly made it an intentionally irritating gesture.
“He’s coming back,” Patty stated.
Asahi looked up and replied, “No… He is not.”
Patty’s eyes widened and filled with tears. “You can’t know that for certain,” she insisted.
“I do not require any more assistance at this time, Miss…,” Asahi sa
