Lies would be a good thing at the moment, even if it wasn't fair to want that. He'd walked away from active hunting, chosen to raise his child with the life she deserved, not the one she was born into, and now?

"Drawing my sister back to town isn't going to solve anything, Laura. You know that as well as I do." Whether Kate had orchestrated the fire or not, and it wasn't unlikely that she would have, it would only end up with more deaths.

"She dies, my father comes to call. And then what? There's not going to be any end because there will always be someone who wants revenge. That's why I took Allison away instead of going after Victoria's killer.

Is this really the future you want?"