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"Much has changed, Ashley. The children you need not worry about. Emiko went to be on her own and has chosen to distance herself from me. The other two? They are on station going to school and being children."
He sighed, "I lost Tombstone and everything I own on Gran Canaria. Still, though, I have the camp on Erie. It is a safe place."
He started looking over her wounds. His fingers touched the bandages that covered many of them. "You did better than me," he said after a deep sigh. "When you left and did not return, I thought the worse. I moved on and fell into the arms of another." He shrugged, "I do not think I could ever get into so much trouble from one person as she got me into. I had to let her go."
He then looked at her, his fingers still going through her hair, "I swear that if I had known, I would have waited."
