Chapter Thirteen
"What are you doing here, Alvin?" she asked as soon as the door slammed behind her.
"I could ask you the same thing. Are you really here to join me?"
"I'm here to find out what you're really about here." That wasn't a lie at least. She did want to know what he was doing and what the others around him had planned. Just not for the same reasons he might want her to know them.
"Hmm."
"I thought you were dead." The words came out as a squeak, entirely unintentionally, but she couldn't help it. With their parents gone, he was the only family she had. She didn't want to lose him unless she had to.
"Now where could you have heard that?" A smirk lifted the corners of his lips, though she could only see half of it with the angle he was standing at.
Tabitha shivered. The way
