Chapter 7
Ryker confiding in her that his family had been killed at an airport struck Jo deeply, something she hadn’t been expecting. She wanted to know more, but she also didn’t want to pry. She’d already said she was sorry, which always seemed like a stupid thing to say in that situation, in her opinion. Asking questions might piss him off. But then, if he wanted to talk about it, maybe she should let him.
“What happened?” she asked him.
He shook his head slowly from side to side, and Jo assumed that meant he wasn’t going to answer her. She went back to staring out the window.
“We were trying to leave the country,” he said, his voice soft, almost monotone.
Jo didn’t turn her head to look at him for fear her emotions might make him stop talking, and she really did want to know what h
