she moved in to embrace me, laying a kiss by my ear. “We’re all here for you, Xavier. Every Altair is your family now. Okay? If you ever need anything, you only have to ask.” She stepped back, and I found Antonia gazing at me with a tinge of sadness in her otherwise proud gaze. “Catalina and Darius are watching you now, I know it,” she said, and I released a soft noise of sadness, sensing she was right.
