“Reyona, I need you to understand that this has nothing to do with me deliberately lying to you or anything. I just felt it was no longer necessary, you know.”

Okay, now she was sure of it. Something was up.

“What?” Reyona asked again as she straightened.

“I sent Thomas away from Kayooma. I sent him to rehab far from…actually, it is not that far away from Sydney, but then I had no idea you would be in Sydney anytime.”

Sent him right to her.

Reyona slowly and rigidly lay back in her seat as she said “And if you had known? Where would you have sent him to?”

He...