EIGHTY TWO

CHAPTER EIGHTY TWO

SCOT

My body keeps on tossing and turning as I try to lay down in bed to sleep. Nickolas had insisted on taking the first watch earlier to enable me to get some rest but then there is no way I can get some rest at least not when my mind is not at rest. So many things are going on at once, so many thoughts swirling around in my mind that are causing my body to stir and sleep is definitely not one of them.

Sitting up on the bed, I stare down at the floor as I recall the conversation we had in the afternoon. Catalina had made it so clear that she didn’t trust me after everything that I had done. I could see it in her eyes, the doubt. I tried my best to make sure she saw it but Javier is such a sweet talker, he has planted the seeds of doubt in her mind and now it sure as hell is germinating and will very soon turn into a mighty seed of its own.

Every atom of trust I have managed to build over the past few hours has certainly been thrown out of the window by that one ph