Chapter 87

Sasha sat up straighter. “And?”

Nathan had to laugh at the redhead’s eagerness, but he shook his head. “He said it wasn’t his place to say. Sort of his typical response with things like that.”

“Oh,” Sasha deflated. “Figures.”

“He did tell me one thing though,” Nathan added, pleased to see a spark of hope return to Sasha’s expression. “He said that not every human who dies becomes a Spirit Guide, but the ones who do choose to be one, and they choose the person they watch over. I’ve asked him a million times why he chose me, and he always says the same thing: because I was the one that needed him.”

The day Walter first said that to Nathan was clear in his mind, during Nathan and Jim’s first year without their parents. As he remembered that night, he also remembered a similar night not too long ago.

“You’re the only other person who’s ever said something like that to me,” Nathan said, turning his head to look at Sasha and realizing just how close they were.