Mary bit her lip and then drained half her glass while she tried to wrap her mind around the situation at hand.
"I didn't say just."
She hadn't, after all. Mary could run a con just as well as the rest of her family, but when it came to someone she cared about lying just didn't work. Which was why she had gone with the simplest explanation of what they were to each other.
"What did you do?" she asked softly. There was a slight edge of hurt in her voice. He'd told her other things, but he hadn't bothered to mention this? It was kind of a big thing to skate over.
"People don't just stop aging. It's not the natural way of things."
She might have sounded a whole lot like her dad with that one, but it was how they had been raised. The natural order sucked a whole lot, but it was there for a reason. When people tried to screw with it, bad things happened.