Safe Distance

"But you can't tell anyone I gave you this," Harper warned Gareth. "Otherwise, this'll be the first time and the last."

Gareth nodded, looking unusually obedient. "Got it."

With him being so cooperative, Harper didn't press further and prepared to leave.

But just before she walked away, something else occurred to her, and she looked back at him.

"By the way... have you met Declan before?"