BEAU
We’d all been jammed into Noa’s tiny cottage for a week. Adriel’s parents' cottage had been repurposed by the tribe for a different family long ago.
A lot of people had been popping in and out the first few days once word of Adriel’s return had gotten out. Most of them had assumed he was dead.
Nope guys, he was busy hunting me down for a crime I didn’t commit is what I had wanted to say.
I knew I would eventually have to let go and forgive, for Noa’s sake. I just needed more time, and a week wasn’t going to cut it. I had stopped trying to kick his ass after the first couple of days, I saw how much it stressed out Noa.
She’d been through enough so now I just pretended like Adriel didn’t exist half the time. He explained to her why he assumed I was his parent’s murderers, and s
