Chapter 98
John resisted his impulse to add wood to the fireplace in their bedroom yet again. The room was already getting too hot for sleeping, despite the chilly atmosphere surrounding Branwen. He walked over to the heavy curtains closed over the bay windows instead.
He twitched one aside to verify to himself that it was indeed dark outside, just as he’d suspected. Just as he’d already verified a few times since they’d come upstairs.
Branwen sat in one of the overstuffed chairs in front of the fire, staring into it as she’d done for what felt like hours now.
She’d been silent through dinner, nodding distractedly when he and Hugh had asked her if she wanted to go to the cave in the morning. He doubted she’d heard a word of it.
Now they were in their room, too early to go to sleep, to
