When she saw me, shetilted her head slightly to look at me. Her standoffish posture instantlychanged into something more friendly."Are you okay, Peej?... she asked, concern filling her voice. "What'swrong?"I nodded, but didn't answer. I didn't know where to begin. With Lee? Butthat would require telling her about the past she didn't know. In fact,everything that was wrong went back to that point."I'm okay," I lied. Then I leaned forward and wrapped my arms around her,hugging her tightly against. You can't get a decent signal out here. It's all these trees." He looked up, his face shadowed by the dense foliage.For just the instant he stood there, Michelle felt a lurch of fear. He didn't look quite right. Something about his face, his eyes maybe. But the instant past and he was looking at her again. Had she really seen something there? Or maybe it was murderer on the mind and she was being too suspicious of every man.She slammed the hood of her car, reached in the glove compartment and. She spent the remainder of her jog mulling over what the phrase ‘peak where the two suns join as one’ could be referring to, but did not deduce a solution. As she reached the home stretch, she saw Warwick standing on the manor’s back terrace, apparently waiting for her. She picked up the pace, sprinting the last few hundred feet and then up the steps to the top of the terrace. ‘Is everything all right, Lady Roft?’ the butler asked with an air of concern as she approached him. ‘Yes, of course it. Her sisters had been with her, though. He was at least thankful for that, but thinking back on it now, the guilt from having gone home for rest and not being there for her at the end may well have been the cause of the terrible insomnia that followed. After we’d talked about her, I felt the weight of obligation had been lifted from the conversation, and we spoke of lighter matters, joking and actually holding hands across the breakfast table. Herman (I would never have guessed that would be his.