CHAPTER 4OK, THE GUY WAS FINALLY awake. It was a start. And the damage she hadn’t been able to fix while he was asleep had been addressed. He couldn’t possibly need much more time to heal, so it was time to start figuring out how she was going to get him out of there.
Ian had showed up at the house the day she’d taken the injured man in, and just moments after Amaya let her knowledge of the man slip. The knock at the door had nearly made her heart leap into her throat. “You can’t tell any of them about what I’ve done, Amaya. They will be very angry with me if they find out,” she’d told the girl.
“A secret?” she’d asked conspiratorially. “I like secrets. They’re my favorite things.”
“Good, then we’ll just keep this our little secret.”
Still, she’d gotten the youngster distracted with mo
