Oh, he’s still pissed. I don’t know what he expected. Did he really think I was going to sleep with him? To be fair, that’s not what he’d asked. But to sleep in a bed with him keeping watch in a chair next to it was pretty much the same thing to me. Last night I’d been too tired and emotionally drained, so I let him get too close. But by the time we landed here in the early morning hours, I had myself together.

I looked around the room after seeing the ...