She was looking at him, right in the eye, and Cash could not lie to her when their eyes were meeting. He swallowed. Angie was promising to stay. He had never wanted to make her stay; he wanted to let her be free to do as she wished, to wander the world, to have all the options that Cash didn't.

He swallowed.

"I almost did something drastic," Cash said, quiet in the emptiness of her flat. "But I didn't."