Watching him leave in the cab gave Megan the same pleasure as soaking up the breeze in spring. It occurred to her that Herman did not enjoy his time in Lostaria.
She reckoned that his missing clothing and glasses must have been pawned off. Upon his return to the country, he had been watched closely. Who knew whether the other party was here to negotiate, or to teach Herman a lesson.
These were not priorities for her bandwidth, because she had already thrown this hot mess entirely into Mia's hands. She would be keen to see what sort of drama those two would be able to put together.
Before dawn broke the next morning, Megan was jolted to wakefulness by a nightmare she had. Ever since she ran into Herman, she had been in relative unease, as though something had been lodged inside of her.
She brought a hand to her forehead and wiped at the cold sweat on it. The recollection of a murderous-looking Jake making an appearance in her slumber demanding her death made her rigid body tremble involuntarily.
There was no staving off that nagging question in her head. This time, she had to put him to the test when he returned.
To this end, Megan called Jake up and found out that he would be back in the afternoon.
She had not anticipated that he would arrive so soon. Megan hung up and began to hesitate as procrastinating further was nonconstructive. Megan exhaled and eventually decided that she should act accordingly when afternoon came.
Time went by and afternoon arrived quickly. In order to buy time for her own purposes, Megan also had Josephine prepare a meal so that they may chat over it.
Megan had her elbows propped up at the edge while she sat at the dining table. She appeared contemplative. The display on her phone to the side kept track of every minute that ticked away.
As unsettled as she was, she shunned the impulse to entertain those random projections about all the possible outcomes.
Click.
Just then, the shut door sprung open. Megan looked back in time to see Jake walk in with luggage in hand.
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