I look up at Dutch. “I won’t promise you that I’ll always say what you want to hear. Or that I’ll always do what you tell me to do.” “You don’t do that already,” Zane mumbles. Vi laughs. “But I will promise you that I’ll be with you through thick and thin. The world might not understand us, but they don’t have to. We’ll make our own world. And we’ll rule it together. There will never be a Dutch Cross without Cadence Cooper.”

