" I love you, Tess,” he told me, tightening his arms around me as if he would never let go.
He’d better not.
We’d never let go of each other -- not Jayden and me, and not the rest of us. We would always be together; we would always be a team.
No matter what happened. No matter what we went through. No matter where our lives took us.
We would always be a family. "

― Mia Stegner Bode , Tess Embers