Not turning his eyes from the window, Faelan answered, "I guess so."
He should have left then, he knew it in his brain, but something in his feet kept him rooted, and all he could think about was the feeling of Padma in his arms and how he wasn't going to feel that anymore. Sure, she said she would come back, but people usually said they wouldn't leave in the first place, and then they never came back. Not for him.
She would be happy once she was safe, and she would stop missing England over time. She would start a new book store and meet someone else who was older and smarter and un-diseased, and she would stay with him and his handsome exoticness and his Spanish money.