Chapter 6
BACK IN the other room, the bandits were singing and laughing like stupid oafs. They were telling jokes, most of them red-cheeked and bright-eyed from the liquor.
All except Sylvan, who sat at the corner of the table, meeting Johanna’s eyes when she came back into the barn.
Lenie followed them to collect the plates, bowls and spoons. Johanna spotted her talking to Ludo. She smiled at him.
Johanna wanted to scream, Don’t give that creep ideas, but there was little she could do.
Lenie left the room again, and came back to collect more plates. She smiled across the table at Ludo.
Johanna cringed and hoped the girl’s father would come in soon. She was too innocent and too young to know what he wanted. If the bandits groped the daughter of their host, she didn’t know how things
