30 Don't Come In

'Saint why do you keep coming to his school. Why do you keep going to see him… Ugh, but you have to, you have to stop it from happening again? You have to keep him safe, away from danger. '

'Just ask him to stay. Just ask him to take a week off, a month, the rest of the time that is left, as long as Ngeun is around. Whatever you can do to stop them from meeting, anything at all, even if you have to fire him.'

'No, you can't, losing him is not an option.'

'It would kill me.'

Saint walked up the steps and around the campus heading for the table he knew Heart would be sitting at.

The wind rustled the branches in the mangrove trees and the open pods fluttered weakly.