It might not be safe here, but it was safer. She would live with that. So after a long moment, she nodded. It took another long moment for her to remember where she’d left the notepad and pencil. ‘am I staying with you?’ A yawn caught her off-guard.
Derek’s eyebrows were together, his expression showing that he didn’t understand. “Yes? That’s why you are here. I told you that you could stay until we found you a place of your own.”
She didn’t remember that. ‘I want to understand you then. you pulled away from me but you held me after bad dreams. you say I will stay but I don’t know why’ His expressions just seemed to be at such odds with his behavior — and with what she sensed from him. She couldn’t even decide if he liked her or just felt sorry for her.
‘I need to understand’