Wheeling Gull Isle peace offerings

She shrugged.

"My family needed me more."

She sometimes wondered what life would have been like if she had stayed with Valentine instead of wandering away. He hadn't really been anything significant in her life. In fact, his presence had been fleeting - a mere passer-through, and one she'd only known for less than a moment - but she remembered feeling a great many things in the days that followed their meeting, things she had never felt for anyone before. Thoughts that set her heart racing -

No. She had done the right thing, giving up that chase to keep looking for Bridget. Someone she actually loved.

"But they're safe now, and I'm old enough that I want to figure out my place in this world now, too."