“She wants to be with us, Sean,” he finished, his words soft but his tone heavy. “Why do you look like someone just told you your dog has died then?” Confusion filtered through his words. That she wanted them, that Andrei believed her, was something to celebrate, wasn’t it? “Because she could hurt us,” Andrei confessed thickly, his eyes somber and bleak. “They all hurt us,” Sean told him matter-of-factly. It was sad but true.
