Xavier didn't release her.

"Are you having a hard time keeping quiet?" he asked.

"Nope."

"You're going to be stubborn the entire night?"

"Yep."

He laughed. "Two can play that game."

Present day

Two days had passed since Xavier had played the videos for the whole town and also put them up on the web. Dorcas had lost her job to date, and no one would speak to her in the town. She'd been booed out of the supermarket and even disregarded. Someone had hurled an ice cream cone at her, and ...