Colin looked up from the ledger he’d been inspecting.
“Theft and a******y are the most common crimes, nearly eighty-three percent. What happens to the other adulterer? It does take two to perform the act.”
Billy squinted at him. “How do you not know—”
“Different laws in Canada,” Meghan cut him off.
He accepted this with a shrug.
“All property given to the offended spouse. Banishment from employment within fifty kilometers for the next year.”
“Justice is balanced in your society. That is encouraging.”
Meghan could almost hear him fitting together the pieces that made up her life and her world. The dispassionate scientist. Always gathering and analyzing. What did this strange man think of her? At times he was a friendly companion who was like a child eager to learn all about the world
