PHOEBE
there's a bulletproof bond
”Ugh. Of course. Almost like you know me.” she said with a light laugh. His agreeable hum made her sigh though. ”It’s sad, really. I…well for a moment I thought he and I could actually be friends.” Or more. The words went unsaid but she felt them deeply. He seemed to need someone to care about him, someone to show him real and regular kindness and warmth…and she needed someone with strength of character and a commitment to family in a near protective manner. The balance was clear, the compatibility obvious but…Loren seemed more concerned with destroying his life than living it, allowing every possible outside factor lead him down paths that made little sense and were out of character with the careful, patient character she had come to know while she had been ill.
”Well Sam would have been more than welcome here too, of course.” she said quietly, with a sigh. ”But you and Ronin are clearly more popular than I.”
”Well Sam would have been more than welcome here too, of course.” she said quietly, with a sigh. ”But you and Ronin are clearly more popular than I.”
between me and you