What had he done, bought the whole store? He was looking at me with a funny look on his face, as he took in my robed appearance wet hair and all and I rather liked it.
He seemed to gather his wits about him and set the bags down on the bed. Coming to the bed beside him I exclaimed, "You didn't have to buy all this! You must have spent a fortune!"
He hadn't stopped looking at me and I watched as he shrugged, "Money isn't a problem at the moment and I thought you could use a few extra changes of clothes."
I fingered the material of a shirt as I softly asked, "Why?"
He looked away for a moment and then back to me and sighed as I studied him intently. "To be bluntly honest, you're in a lot of danger. You're in danger while you're with me and when you're not. I like to think that I'd be able to keep you safer if you're with me and to that intent I plan on taking you with me, when I leave the country in a few days."
"Is keeping me safe the only reason why you're taking me with you?"
He shook his head no, "No it's not the only reason."
I looked down at the clothes, "By now I know you must know that I play a significant role in finding what I think you and a lot of others are after. Is that the other reason why you want me with you?"
He met my renewed stare with an equally matched intensity of his own. "I'm fully aware of how important you are to what I'm looking for and knowing that is why I think you're safer with me, but it's not the reason for why I'm taking you with me other that is then also keeping you safe!"
"To trust what you're saying involves putting quite a lot of trust in you. I've been betrayed before."
"Not by me!" he said firmly his eyes never so much as batting away from mine.
"Okay, I'll go with you willingly, but I'm keeping a gun at all times."
"Absolutely, have three or four of them if you want. Now I imagine that after all of today's events that you've worked up a bit of an appetite."
Now that he mentioned it, I was starving.
He must have read the answer in my expression, "Get dressed and I'll take you out to dinner."
He had started to turn away, but then stopped, "I almost forgot. There was some blood on your clothes?"
"Just burns, nothing serious."