Her quiet words and falling to the couch brought Holsten’s gaze back from the ceiling and to her. He nodded in understanding. He hadn’t gone through something like that with any of his siblings but he’d still like to think he’d have been courteous enough to say goodbye. Guess they’d never know. He was fairly certain that whatever they had had before would be long gone after all of this.

“Still hate me?” he asked, lips turning up into a smirk[/post]