I hadn’t realized how much I’d been hoping that Riona would stay. After everything we’ve been through together. Everything we’ve learned about each other . . . I thought she had bonded to me like I bonded to her. But I was wrong. She’s anxious to get back home. The Djinn is gone, and Josh Hale as well. Nobody is out to get her anymore. She doesn’t need me. I did my job a little too well.
