Chapter 47: "You don't like being touched."

I do not take them.

Caleum leaves the house and goes out to handle his business.

I know it’s none of my business what his business is. I still don’t know what he does, I do want to know - because the playfield has shifted quite a bit now. The variables aren’t the same anymore, things aren’t as simple as they once were.

At least for me.

I don’t know what’s making me act this way. It’s weird, it’s all weird,

But I know I can't leave anything to chance now.

There’s a bond between us, and I need to run background checks. I didn’t run background checks with Ulric and look how that turned out. Though I am older now and in a different situation, with a totally different man, I know I can't repeat the same mistakes I made.

I need to do this right, for all our sakes.

I can’t ask about him in his home, he’s asked me not to. I’ll respect his wishes on that.

But I can ask about him outside it.

“What are you doing?”

I jump as a hand pulls me out of the way of an incoming body. It takes me a seco