Evelina's POV
Caspian looked down at him for another moment, and then he answered.
"Yes," he said. "They hurt."
Ren considered this with the seriousness he gave to everything lately. "Do they still?"
"It was a long time ago," Caspian said, and that was the whole of it. Plain, final, nothing offered past what he'd already given.
I was starting to understand something about this man. He didn't waste words, and he didn't spend them twice on the same thing. Whatever he gave you, he gave you once, exactly as hard as it was, and you were expected to manage on your own after that.
That was something I was going to have to get used to.
Ren had already moved on from the scars entirely. He was craning his neck toward the window, up on his toes to see over the sill. "Is this your house? It's s
