Chapter Four
IT WAS THE HEIGHT OF stupidity to leave the alien tied up all alone in the shed without a guard. But Penny didn’t have another choice. She shouldn’t be out here this late and if anyone came to the cabin looking for her, they’d wonder why she’d left her sisters alone. He was tied up well—disturbingly well, considering that one of her sisters had done the work. And she’d put the fear of God into him, her God, if not his own.
If he was discovered, he did have enough information to damage her reputation, but Penny could still talk her way out of it. I was concerned for my sisters, she’d say. I wasn’t thinking clearly! And they’d believe her because they didn’t know that she could lie.
She closed the outer door as quietly as she could, both to not alert the alien inside that he
