“I didn’t say it to you when we first faced the Order, and Ghosts know I’ve lain awake more nights than I care to count thinking about what would have happened if Galwell hadn’t found you out. If you had—succeeded because I never told you . . .” he said. He felt he was carving each word in rock. Headstone or victory monument, he could only hope he knew. “I guess I’m . . . saying it now. I don’t know how to live in a world without you in it, so fucking stay in it. Please.”
