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“I’m happy to see you, too,” Rafe said dryly

“You didn’t answer my question”

“I wanted to ood-bye”

“Don’t go I appreciate what you did for ,” Rafe said “It was the woman who saved you”

“But you came” Rane frowned at his brother “How did you knohere I was?”

“When you were ill, I felt your pain, and I followed it”

“Soood came out of it, then,” Rane muttered

Rafe nodded “I tried to sense your presence before, but there was only emptiness where our bond used to be”

Rane flinched at the unspoken accusation in his brother’s voice “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to hurt you, but…”

“Why, Rane, why did you block the bond between us? Why did you cut me out of your life?”

Rane took a deep breath, then loosed it in a long, slow sigh “I was afraid if I stayed, the old man would find out what I’d done That Moaze “That you’d find out”

“Find out what?” Rafe asked, frowning

“That I wasn’t like you! That first night when the old , I went out later, alone, and…” Even now, all these years later, he couldn’t say it, couldn’t tell his brother what he had done

“Is this about the woht ere turned?” Rafe asked

“How do you know about that?”

“How could you think I wouldn’t know?”

Rane stared at his brother in disbelief “You’ve known about her all this time?”

“Of course”

Rane searched his brother’s ust or disappointment He found neither “What about Mom and Dad? Did you tell them?”