I know how much this other family must mean to him, and I do not want to be the reason why he stays behind. I am sure I’ll be fine here, by myself.
“You have to do what you have to do, right? I will be fine here. We have almost a full month before the next full moon anyway.”
“No, if someone is targeting us, then I cannot just leave you alone,” he argued.
“Okay, well, we don’t know that for sure, and besides, if someone is coming after us, then whomever it is must think I am already dead anyway, right!” I said with a half-smile. The person had already come after me once. Maybe he doesn’t know I survived. “He had already come after me and our parents. He would not come back if he thought I was dead?”
“We don’t know anything at this point, and I am not willing to risk leaving you behind t
