“We made a pact when you left, Casey…” he whispered, his eyes tightening in the corners. “That we would give you a chance to live your life away from us, away from Harley. We didn’t want to drag you down when you had an opportunity to escape this place…” “But I asked for you guys to-” “We know. But we agreed that we would shut you out, let you be mad at us so that you would move on and accept your new, better life.”
