Third-Person Point of View
"You had... family disputes..." At first, Riley thought she shouldn't answer what he asked, but then, without even realising it, she gave a response. Maybe the pain she'd never seen in those green eyes had tempted her to say something.
Ezra chuckled again, but it wasn't a teasing chuckle this time; it was a painful one.
"Yeah... family disputes... " Ezra said, then he paused for a few seconds before asking,
"Do you know what kind of family disputes could make an eight-year-old boy who just lost his mother have to leave his only family, his father and brother, and never return to the place he called home?" Ezra had talked with Riley plenty during their assignments, but beyond that, they'd had literally zero personal conversations. Riley never imagined Ezra wou
