I exhale. The warm air is driving my uneasiness away. It feels good to be out of the car but we have to walk on foot now, together...

I wish I can tell him to take us back home, that I don't want to see Shelia today but that would put me back in the car with him... alone.

I don't have the energy to replay the awkwardness again, at least not right now.

"You didn't tell me what Evelyn demanded for if you had failed."

Dry leaves crunches under my feet.

"That's because you didn't ask."

I hear a hum come from him before he speaks to me again....