QUOTE : Why do I feel bad about leaving him behind?<br /><br />I liked it better when I just wanted to key his car to feel good.<br /><br />He’s like Anna. Once they’re in your life, you just adapt to their creepy ways and start to find the weird charm in them. Damn him for making me miss her, and damn him for worming his way into the part of my mind that makes me worry about him.<br /><br />“Are you going to be okay?” I ask when the knocking gets really obnoxious.<br /><br />He groans.<br /><br />“Only if you make her stop before I have to kill her and really piss Arion off.”<br /><br />With that, I remember Damien is also a monster, and I turn and head off with the assurance he’s a big boy who can take care of himself, even when he looks sad, miserable, and a little lonely.