Until the moment she was in his arms, he'd held back on hope. This place had thrown him (and the others, not that he gave a damn about them) so many curveballs, the line between reality and fiction had begun to blur. He had just spent the past week or so believing he was a computer tech with a crazy ex-wife. But there she was, his girl. The moment she was in his arms, he hugged her tightly.
"I missed you too," he murmured quietly, lost in the conversational din around them to anyone else but her. Anytime he'd wondered on her fate after he arrived in Kansas, his mind always went to the worst. He knew Angel's plan was really going to piss the Senior Partners off. Even half completed, and he'd left her in the building.
"About damn time the seal brought me someone I wanted around."