What I had been snarling for earlier now seemed like an abandonment. The fear surged up in me, undercutting my resolve. I sat up abruptly, panicky. I took a long shuddering breath. “Burrich. What I said to you earlier, I was angry, I was…” “Right on target.” The sound he made might have been a laugh, if not so freighted with bitterness. “Only in the way that people who know one another best know how to hurt one another best,” I pleaded.
