"She's really going to go." Jake looked out the front window. "And we're going to let her."
"Yep." Hunter walked by, pacing the ground floor as he'd been doing for the past half-hour. "It's the best thing for her. This is what she wants."
"But it's not what I want. What you want." Jake shook his head. "You know it's going to take the better part of a year for us to all get together again, if not longer." He gestured at the living room. "We can catch a night here and there, maybe meet at a hotel between here and Baltimore. But it's not the same as being together, living together."
"Don't you think I know?" Hunter grunted, his shoes scuffing the hardwood floor. "But we can't ask her to stay."
"Why not?" Jake snapped. "Tell her we love her and she's got to stay because she's the best thin
