C16 Chapter 15

River stared at her for a moment and then shrugged. “I can’t defend the guy. I don’t know him well enough. And I certainly did not meet him at the time you met him, so I couldn’t really say for sure what his intentions were. And when I met him… well, he wasn’t a very jolly person.”

“You mean to say, as far as you know, he’s always been an ass?”

River shrugged again and took a sip of his wine