Leo waited as Jack spoke with Asteria on the phone, his eyes never leaving Amara. He couldn't bring himself to leave her, not when he was still unsure of the threat that still lay in her body.
“So, are you gonna tell her?” he asked after the call, as though waiting for him to jump out of his heels with just the prospect of that.
Leo looked at his bloodied fingers, heaving a sigh as he nodded. One nod to seal the end of his happy life. Who was he kidding? He had never had a life with such happiness. Amara had been the little beacon of hope he'd ever had.
“Not everything though,” he said as he looked up at Jack.
“I can't just tell her that I'm not human. That would freak her out.”
Jack ruffled his hair. “From the look of things, Leo, I think she's already quite freaked out.”
“I'll tell
