Chapter 10
Loneliness
“Oh, crap!” Sophia slipped her feet out of her trainers, arriving home too late to do an assignment and muttering to herself.
“What’s wrong?” Edgar sat on the top step, watching her face with uncharacteristic intensity. Sophia jumped, not expecting him to be there.
She shook her head. “Oh, nothing important. I forgot to tell Calli about her kid brother and sister last night. I’ll do it tomorrow.” She sat on the bottom step, anticipating their promised chat about moving and wondering how to change his mind without telling him she knew the truth.
“What about them? What’s up with the kids?” Edgar scratched his fingers through his hair and left dark spikes sticking upright. Sophia’s eyes narrowed as she saw him as other women might, rugged, handsome and available. Sh
