It was two days to the hunt that Belle finally gave up pretending not to care about her husband and his whereabouts. She had had enough of sleepless nights and constant wondering if he was having enough fun while leaving her alone. He did not come at night; Kuhn had kept her company and saw to it that she would sleep without any nightmares.
Whenever she started to feel herself getting pulled into one, she was jolted awake by his wooden hand creeping to her shoulder and shaking her, and God help her, she almost had a heart attack one night when she woke up to his dark, hooded face.
Though she understood nothing the creature said, they had become closer than she could expect after the day it delivered her letter to Jamie.
However, she still wasn't certain if Jamie had gotten it, as he hadn't replied—not that she expected him to, but she would have been glad to know if he had departed from Nightbrook, and Kuhn could not speak words she understood to tell her if he had.
