"You're not. Sweetheart, if you were what they made you, you never would have turned against them. We never would have had the relationship we did. Maybe they created you but they don't control you," he said firmly, leaning in against the table. "You've got a lot more to you than just being the speaker for them."
He wasn't going to let it go. Back off maybe but it would always be at the back of his mind. If he could get her free, he damn well would try to. One of them could get gone from the Senior Partners' Afterlife special, it'd be something of a victory.
"I'm just saying. I quit caring about Angel Investigations when I picked up a file and didn't recognize a damn name on the roster," he said bitterly. "I don't care about it being impersonal but fighting a ghost isn't worth it."