Nate liked April, he truly did. She was sweet and kind and had done more than she should to take care of him in the house they had on the base. It had been many years since he didn't have to wash his own clothes or get his own food, for one.
Right now, he really didn't like her. He'd never thought of her as manipulative before, possibly a bit naive, but with a worried look on her face she had pinned him down with the one thing that could influence his decision.
The safety of her and Eliot's child.
Grumbling, he turned off the news as she requested, then threw a glance at the pictures she'd pointed in his direction. They showed a white clean suburban house with a garden surrounded by other clean two story houses with gardens. It looked quaint, sweet, calm - everything he'd stayed away from since Sam died. Oh he'd rather be elsewhere, anywhere else than there, but he couldn't fail a child. He couldn't fail Eliot's child, or Eliot.
"Fine, I'll take the upper one," he said with a grumble as he got up. "I'm heading out for a walk."