Chapter 25

Silence fell between them, like a curtain. Genthry itched. He didn’t want Dryath to leave and he sure as hell didn’t want Dryath going back to the marshals. He couldn’t tell him that, though. He’d had a hard enough time dragging the poor man all the way out here. He’d disrupted Dryath’s life enough, and what kind of life could he really offer? A life of crime, always on the run, probably ending in a short imprisonment and brief, blistering pain.

He didn’t even want that for himself. He wasn’t going to try to bring someone else into it.