“Oh.” Scarlet realized that she had taken his statement out of context.
“What did you think I meant?” Stephan saw the look of relief on her face. “I am not going to leave my family if you think that’s what I meant.”
“I wasn’t thinking anything. When do you leave?” She avoided eye contact as much as she could, and his height helped her. She looked at his chest, not raising her eye level to his chest.
“As soon as Mathias gets here. We need his help. Ric has too many men for us to fight alone.”
“Uh-huh.”
“We leave as soon as tomorrow.”
“Ok.”
Stephan stared at her, wondering how she could be so distant to him at a time like this. Her two-syllable responses to everything he said annoyed him.
“I won’t be taking SJ with me.”
“Good.”
“I trained him to fight, just in case Marquis comes
