Chapter 54
Noah and Tess returned home with their impossibly perfect baby boy the following morning, and so it wasn’t until lunchtime that I had a chance to ask Bane whether he had managed to speak with the sergeant, who had moved out again as soon as the visitors had started arriving. It would have been tricky to explain why he was staying with us, given how hard we were all trying to convince the Nalong community that the drama of Tessa’s abduction was now over. There was enough gossip going on without the sergeant’s presence adding to it.
While the others were all eating I wandered out to the garden, knowing Bane would follow and no one would question it. Somehow I had to avoid letting Noah get involved in what we were doing, partly because he had more important priorities just then,
