Luci Luci woke up to find Thatcher sitting on her bed. He still looked unhappy as he sat staring across the room at nothing in particular. She noted that the adjoining door was open and looked at him, “Was father in here already?” she murmured softly and Thatcher just nodded at her, “Why?” she asked him. “To check that you were still in here.” He told her simply. Luci was not all that surprised by that comment to be honest. That man wanted to make sure that she didn’t sneak out in the middle of the night, though if she had done; she’d have made sure to have been back before the sun was up. Though there was no way that she would do that with Thatcher in her room, if their father had come to check on her, and she wasn’t here. He would likely take it out on the boy as well as her. She wa