Chapter 20

.“Thank you for bringing me here then.” She can’t be jovial about the reasons but she can appreciate the scenery all the same.

“To drown something? Overnight, you went from goody two shoes to this, is it?”

She rolled her eyes to that.

“I am not a goody two shoes. I just keep away from trouble. Specially your kind.”

“Ouch. Your conscience okay hurting a patient?” He playfully clutched his heart and pretended to fall over.

She laughed then. A small tinker like quality, the spark in her eyes, and Evan had to not make this awkward by suddenly staring at her. He was no Noah Abel, staring and brooding until things came to him. He rather take them of his own free will.

Vanessa wasn’t a thing, he knew. But he wanted her.

Evan cleansed the seats and pushed the car down hill. It’d break on its way, the current would carry broken pieces upstream where villagers would re-use the junk for suitable purposes. She helped him with the whole process with no hesitation.

He turned to her, sweatin