“I’ll understand if you want to stop here and go back to your country,” he began. “I’ll go with you wherever you want, and the children will too. You don’t have to keep getting involved in this if you don’t want to, Han. It wouldn’t be the first time I step aside, either.”
I frowned, and without enjoying the tension that dominated both of us at all, we looked at each other in the amber light of the lamps, hearing nothing but the hollow silence of the cavernous hall. He, perhaps, could hear how wildly my heart was beating.
At last, I let out a long sigh and frowned again.
“So you’ve been talking to me about your family’s secrets, about your nature and your people, and you’ve shown me this today so that I’ll get scared and want to run away?” I retorted. He was about to say something, but
