“How is Avery doing?” I ask passing Anna a tablecloth as she folds it up gently.
“She’s not good. She’s devastated honestly and I just don’t know what to say to her. I feel responsible. This all happened because of me. It’s me he is after.”
“Don’t say that Anna. You are the most caring and loving person I know. Not a single bit of this is your fault.” I tell her truthfully pulling her into a hug.
“It’s just... difficult. It brings back so many memories of that day when Natalie died. It was the hardest day of my life. Then to see James so broken. A shadow of the man he was... I just can’t help thinking all of these people would be better off of Cain had just captured me the first time.” She sobs into my shoulder as I stroke her hair.
“I just wish I could change things. I wish ther
