#Chapter206

‘I’ll have Jackson and Mico come out and take him to be cremated. You can have his ashes if you want them.’ Alexi sounds like he always does, unemotional and just cold, but his suggestion isn’t so. He’s offering me some sort of console in a way he knows how. Maybe he doesn’t feel anything about Feral dying, or even know how to sound like he has any empathy, but I do, and he’s trying to be what I need him to be right now. He’s acting as if I matter. He’s trying to show he can care, in his own way.

It’s not the man I know …...