Chapter 24
A delicate giggle woke Harry from a sound sleep. He shouldn’t have let his guard down for so long but his body could only cope with so much these days, and it was so hard to keep remembering why it even mattered. He crept back into the bushes, hoping the girl would lose interest once he was out of sight, but she followed him curiously, her large blue eyes showing no trace of fear. He should have known his furtive behaviour would only spark her inquisitiveness. He sat down and tried to look as bored as possible instead. It usually worked with young children at home, not that he’d had much experience with those, really. He only knew that when Lainie was a child she tended to lose interest most quickly when they were doing something that even he found tedious. Like trying to teach
