Deni
“What?” I ask him sitting up.
My stomach squeezes tight with a nervous energy I try to push down.
Why did this have to happen now?
Haven sits up too, and takes my hand. He intertwines our fingers, and then looks down at our hands. He’s hesitating, and he’s making this whole thing hard.
“Just say it,” I say giving his hand a reassuring squeeze.
“I need you to go to Grant. I need…” he says looking at me in the eyes. I shake my head before he even finishes what he needs to say. “It’s only for a little while…just a little while until Nick and I get rid of the thing in the forest.”
“I don’t think I can be away from you for that long,” I say shaking my head again.
“I know, I feel the same way too, but…I can’t live with the fear of something happening to you,” he says. I
