Eric shrugged his shoulders and responded. "Ya already said ya was sorry. No need to do it again. Less ya judging me again." He added a quirky smile at the end of his statement while he kicked off his own boots and propped his feet up on the edge of the bed. "You was wrong, I was right. All there is to it." He added while he lifted the book and opened to his bookmarked page,. "And no. That punk ain't going to be following no one for a bit. I reckon he's got three or four broke ribs and his face is gonna hurt bad enough he's seeing stars till tomorrow night." He liked her. Not because she was pretty, or because she was in need. But just because he liked her. So he continued to say. "Don't worry babe. I got ya back. Even if he showed up he'd get carried away again."<br/><br/>But something about her statements bothered him. While he never really planned anything, or rather hadn't planned anything other than surviving in a long time he concerns had became his. He had planned to leave soon. Sooner now that he'd actually had to seriously hurt someone for their actions. He was going to have to move, and move soon. So he looked over his book and said. "I'm gonna have to leave soon." He wasn't sure why he was going to say what he was going to say. But he felt the need to say it. "Look, I'm kind of a ghost right now. I can't get picked up. And even if ya set shit straight I'm gonna get picked up quick in this town. So I'm gonna have to leave tomorrow, or maybe day after."He polished off his beer and finished with a light hearted comment. " and I suppose if i tried something funny I'd have to kick my own ass, don't worry I'll be fine here. You sleep. We'll get shit sorted in the morning,"<br/><br/>He knew that he needed to leave. While he'd been in plenty of fights since he arrived at the hodunk town he'd been in many of them. But they were always with dock workers, or laborers fishermen. People that understood the need for discretion. From the feelings he'd gotten from his temporary companion he could tell that her husband was methodical. Not a person that refrained from calling the law when it suited his purpose.