(Dane)
I heard enough from the doorway.
Not everything. Just enough to understand what was happening. Cassidy's voice low and careful. The call was real and she was holding it together.
I stayed where I was.
She didn't need me in the room. She needed me close enough to know I was there if she did. There's a difference and it took me a long time to learn it.
When she hung up I crossed the room and put my hands on her shoulders and let her lean back into me and didn't say anything yet. She'd talk when she was ready. That was just how Cassidy worked and I knew it well enough by now to not get in the way of it.
She told me what Sienna had said.
Not word for word. Just the shape of it. Her sister had picked up. Her sister had said she'd handled it badly. Her sister hadn't promised anythi
