David was surprised at my pallor.
“Are you worried about the detective you met back there, Ciara?”
I was unsure whether I needed to explain further. Eventually, I settled with shaking my head.
“I… It’s just getting on my nerves, that’s all. If we had left any later, we might not have been able to get out of there. We barely escaped! I still feel scared when I think about it.”
My words seemed to placate David, and he nodded his head sagely.
“Glad he helped us out, then. Who knows what would have happened to us without him.”
“But…” I murmured, “How could something like that happen in the first place?”
“Maybe someone there messed with someone that they shouldn’t have,” David deliberated.
The world was a messy place, and there were plenty of things we were unaware of.
We returned to Y
