Badru
Acting on a brief glimmer of common sense, I ran from the pack house through the main door, choosing not to follow my brother through the shards of glass still hanging precariously. Any other time, I would have taken a moment for self-congratulations that I had thought first and acted second, but given all that I had on my plate, self-congratulations were a world away.
It wouldn’t stop replaying in my head, over and over again against my will, ricocheting around my mind like a stray bullet in a metal can.
How had I never seen it?
All those signs; why he was so against Elan being in charge of our finances. How calm he was that Evie was our mate when our mother wanted to burn the house down. And most importantly, why it felt that, deep down, he thought Evie wouldn’t return… because
