Chapter 28Ed didn’t touch Jayden and it pained her. Shrouded in pain and a sense of unpredictability, she felt unreachable. They sat in the vestry side by side and Jayden rested a hand on her shaking knees to stop them knocking together. She wished she could shrink small enough to drop through the cracks in the floorboards. Ed’s lips moved as though in continual prayer and a flush of gratitude ran through Jayden’s bloodstream. He looked like a man whose own heart-scars were being torn open with dirty hands.
“I’ll be fine.” Jayden’s voice emerged as a croak and Ed frowned and turned to face her.
“Are you sure?” he whispered.
A gentle knock on the vestry door heralded a tall man, broad-framed and stooped. Muscles pushed aside any notion of fat and Jayden blinked at the sight of her brothe
