Purpose: Whisperer of Night
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Chapter eighteen: Skylar Royce
Skylar couldn’t believe that she was actually scared that Hank would come and hurt her. That thought was just CRAZY! If Hank wanted to hurt her he would have done so already. NOW because of her overreaction Ryder’s sleeping in the room across form hers. She mines well have BEGGED him to stay, she basically FORCED him! She thought as she smashed the pillow on her face. Now she was avoiding getting out of bed so she wouldn’t have to see him, this was just GREAT!
Skylar rolled out of bed and took a shower while still stalling. By the time she was finished she dragged her legs down the stairs and into the kitchen to make her a morning cup of Joe to find out it was already made and Ryder was at her kitchen table.
“Morning,” he said as he blew on his cup of…whatever it was he was drinking.
“Morning?” she didn’t mean to phrase it as a question but she was truly taken by surprise.
“Yes, it’s when the sun comes up, you know the start of a new day,” he said sarcastically.
“The sun doesn’t always come up,” she said recovering from her momentarily shocked manner as she took her cup of coffee and joined him at the table.
“So what’s on the agenda today,” he asked as he sat his cup of what now looked like tea down.
“Work,” she answered simply.
“Riiight,” he said as if he wanted to say something more but decided against it.
“What?” she asked urging him to just say it.
“What about Hank?” he asked.
“I hadn’t really thought about it, but I can’t not go to work because he’ll be there. I don’t want him to be suspicious, besides he has no reason to be it’s not like he committed some kind of crime.”
“Riiight,” he said this time as though he didn’t believe her.
“Well I have to go,” he announced as he got up.
“Do you have to leave so soon? I was just about to poison the tea!” she joked as she got to her feet as well.
“You can’t poison me princess but nice try,” he said as he walked out the front door.