going to make him nervous. What if I decide to return for his wife if I can’t find the one I’m looking for? Likewise, if I brag about being able to snap necks with my bare hands.

For the life of me, literally, I can’t figure out how to answer this one. I’m just opening my mouth to say something that I hope is helpful when the woman at the fire cries out. She’s leaned forward suddenly over her huge stomach, dropping the stirring stick to the floor and twisting away from the fire to come down on her knees.

Caleb stands quickly with a low growl, knocking over the stool he’d been sitting on and crossing the room to her angrily. I brace for him to hit her, while at the same time reaching my left hand over quickly to loosen the knots on my right while he&rsq...

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