Chapter 7Though she hadn’t exactly promised, Amy didn’t say a word to Leon about finding out the truth. In fact, she didn’t say a word to him at all. She went straight to her room and gathered the dirty clothes and bed linens, prepared to use the laundry as a means to keep busy and out of his way. There was one tense moment when he asked where Kenneth had taken himself off to, but Amy’s explanation that he’d gone hunting appeased him. Long enough for her to bustle with fetching and warming water anyway. He focused on his whittling, whistling under his breath, as his eyes flickered with her every movement.
It made her skin crawl. He missed nothing. He evidenced that with nearly everything that had ever come out of his mouth. The way he watched her now made her feel like a mouse scuttling a
