Dinner went very quickly after that. I knew that I wasn’t much in the way of company, but I also knew that I didn’t have much choice about it. I was afraid that if I spoke now, I would let something slip and he would discover that it was me that had been going through his things and had tripped his security.

He must have had a laser in there or something.

“Is that alright with you?” I heard Jacob ask me.

‘Great, I missed something,’ I needed ...