"Here?" He repeated immediately after. "I do not feel you want you in my house but none the less you are safe here."
Evelyn looked away for a second with the insult and the embarrassment that came with it.
"No I didn't mean it like that," Evelyn corrected herself with the quick gulp, "I meant it like the don was attacked last night and I have never been attacked. It happened in his house and that makes me a little. . ."
Evelyn let the sentence hang at the end. No matter how much she wanted to find a word quickly to represent how she felt she came up with none.
"Unsafe? Unprotected?" Lucas added his words to her dictionary. "What is it that you feel? It is probably in the terms of something unsafe and uncertain. Isn't it?"
He was understanding exactly what Evelyn exactly wanted to say and it scared her a little. Had he felt like there as well?
