Big Salmon Lake I got used to living without you

Don't you dare make this my fault! Well, he got her to stay. She rounded back, ignoring that he'd just said the exact thing that she had, that they'd both admitted it (albeit past tense).

If I hadn't come here, would you have even bothered? You haven't said shit besides the fact that you can't come home. Stop fucking acting like you're doing me or him any favors. Cowards don't fight for what they want. I'm not the one making bullshit excuses. She was spitting mad again.

She'd spent months wondering if he was alive, and she could forgive that if something had happened. She wasn't stupid. What she couldn't forgive was his willingness to give up now that he was here. Or the conclusion that she drew, unconfirmed, that he'd been hiding from them for a while now.