Richard looked like he would have very much liked to have slapped Jayden, but he knew it wouldn't do any good, since things just went right through him, and he went right through people. The lights in the kitchen all blew instead, raining little glass shards down onto the people in the room.
He whirled on Adrian, disappointment and anger clear on his face. "Perhaps my biggest disappointment of all, after your older brother," he sighed. "You were doing so well, Adrian. And you threw it all away, and for what?"
Jesse buried his face in her hair. "I'm not sure what possessed me to do that," he admitted quietly, the faint trace of a laugh in his voice. "Thought I might as well try something."