"I'm sorry I wasn't there for you guys," Jesse said sadly, twisting his fingers together. "I wish-I wish I would have known, I wish I could have done something."
"Or Dad would have shot you if you came back," Isaiah said darkly.
Jesse let out a bark of laughter, though there was no real humor in it. "More than likely, yeah." Then he smiled at Adrian. "Thank you," he said. "That's good to know. And yeah, he is. We reconnected a while after I moved here, he was the boy Dad found out about. And things just kind of...fell into place."