A shudder ran through him, and his shoulders drooped. “Oh. Yeah, you’re right. That did feel like a debt-to-a-dead-woman kind of thing, huh?” I nodded. I hated it, but that was exactly what it sounded like. Lucas’s sister had been someone Leon cared for enough that he’d fulfilled her wishes after she was gone. He hadn’t been joking when he said he’d given Lucas a gift. With his entire existence erased, Lucas was safer from the Guild than I could have ever hoped.
