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NOW SHE FELT guilty. He was right about one thing: it was true that she didn’t know much about this world. She sat back down on the mattress and glared angrily into the dark, her arms folded over her chest.
Well then, maybe he should tell her. Whose fault was it that she didn’t know much anyway?
She let out a forceful breath.
Acting like a spoilt teenager was not the answer either. She hadn’t exactly been friendly to him, and maybe he hadn’t been sure how much he could tell her. Perhaps he suspected she might not be what she seemed to be either. And maybe he had a whole lot more to teach her than the Pengali could. She could at least speak to him and find out what he was willing to share.
When he returned in the morning, she would apologise to him, and from then on, she would not l
