“You’d all go? Why would you give all this up?” Gage taps the table, a nervous finger pecking the wood. “In full transparency, your disappearance would be considered a default on our end. We’d be held accountable. But we’d choose to go with you either way. It’s already been discussed.” That simultaneously swells my heart and wrecks me. “That means the world to me, but I’m so sorry. I—” Wells lifts my chin. “Do not apologize.”
