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They were met at the top of the stairs by a very irate Bina. “What in the world have you two been doing? Driving us into a cliff two hundred miles off?”
“Something like that,” Drifter teased as he kept Allie close against his side.
Bina’s attention fell on Allie’s pale face and her face softened. “What’s happened?”
Drifter leaned Allie into Bina who stretched out her arms. “That’s a long story but take her. I need to clean up a mess down there and she shouldn’t have to see that.”
Bina took Allie into her arms but cast a look of warning at Drifter. “Alright, but don’t you dare leave without saying goodbye.”
“We’ll see.” Drifter strode off into the fog.
“Come on, dear,” Bina soothed as she led her back to her cabin. “Let’s get you a nice, stiff drink.”
A half hour later fo
