Chapter 135: Friends In unlikely Places
Sedona's POV
"Okay," I said.
He left through the side gate, not back through the house, which meant he had known about the side gate, which meant he had been here before tonight, looking at the property, and that was information I was going to have to think about carefully.
I stood in the garden after the gate closed and felt the quiet come back in.
Dante turned to look at me. He didn't ask if I was all right in the way people asked when they wanted reassurance for themselves. He just looked at me with the direct quality he had, checking the facts of the situation.
"I'm fine," I said, before he asked.
"I know," he said. "Are you ready to go back in?"
I looked at the garden. The October plants, still holding their color. The stone path under m
