Use honey

Your both are in the same situation, and followers gained through fear will likely turn on you when you need them the most.

You slowly and quietly open the door. The inside of the small dilapidated, abandoned farmhouse, is an even more depressing sight. The bare walls don’t even begin to hold back the wind, and the thatch roof long ago has blown away leaving multiple skylights. In the middle of the room is a pile of old brunt logs where the traveling homeless must have huddled for heat. Lastly, in the far corner setting on the cold harden dirt floor is Rachael.

“You made it out alive! I am so sorry I did not know what he was going to do. I needed the money, and he said he would give me money if I found out who you were.”

“Is this where you live?”

“No, this is only where I run to hide. Did you manage to kill him?”