I give a tight smile and squeeze her hand back. That little gesture of hers, how easily she does it, is one of the most comforting things anyone has ever done to me. It makes me feel a little less like a monster.

"I've, uh, seen him, I think," I say. Which is true. As soon as I learned she had someone special like that in her life I stalked them a little bit but I'm not going to mention that.