I TOLD ASHLEY that as soon as spring storms begin, I need to go back where he found me. I can"t leave Kate, or Flynn, or any of them, without an explanation. Ash reminded me that I did exactly that when I left home. For the next couple of days, I tried to explain to him what had changed, my emotional connection to the only woman who had taken me into her family in eight years. He argued that I didn"t know how long I"d been gone, and how much more damage I could do using the portal for my own selfish—his word—reasons. I TOLD ASHLEY“Your relationship with her, in your time, was only a couple of months. You"ve been married for eight years. And you have a son who needs his father to help him grow up. So you need to grow up first.” your“All I want to do is say goodbye and thank them. You can

