“Because you hurt her!” Briar wished she could yell at him. “You forget, despite the fact you are a novelty right now, she’s been with me all along and she loves me. When you left me crying over the real possibility you were going to murder my sister, she was upset. She might not have known why you made me cry but she knew you made me cry. It hurt her. You hurt her and she is nine years old, and she doesn’t know how to process it.”
“I did not mean,” he started to protest.
She cut him off, “You know Liev, my dad was not a good guy. He was a con artist and a brute. He mugged people all the time, sometimes at gun point and other times he beat them up and took their money. While my mom was good at running a scam, he would point blank rob and take money. But with me and with Sully, there was
