This is it. He felt a shudder in the pit of his stomach. He still couldn’t figure out the reasons for his ordeal, as hard as he tried to make sense of it all. He thought of his father and remembered wondering why he’d seemed more distant and preoccupied in the last few months. Does this have something to do with him rather than me? Maybe somebody is after him and somehow I got dragged into this, like David said. Realizing that he was going in circles again, he decided to get up, thank his hosts, and leave for his rendezvous with David. Jules offered to walk with him back to the city and he gladly accepted. Going through the forest was not the easiest thing to do, and besides, he wanted to see if he could convince her to stop being so angry with him. “How long have you been with the Scrappies?” he asked. “About three months. Do you remember the last snow in March? That night, Tom found me in the forest and took me to the house.”
