I dropped onto my bed once I was back in my room.
'Angel?'
'Screw off.'
I could feel Raleigh's sigh through our mental link.
'Where the fuck do you get off ...' Memories flooded forward before I found the words.
'I spent the entire night trying to keep you out of my head. The last thing I wanted was for you to realize I was leaving. I couldn't handle that, not from you.'
'So you slept with me instead?!'
'It renewed our bond so we could stay in touch.' He looked up at a ceiling, I couldn't tell where. 'And it distracted you from getting into my head to see where I was going.'
'You had no clue where you were going.'
'You know me so well." He paused for a moment. "How are things out there?'
'I wouldn't know. People are treating me like a plague.'
'You could come join me.'
'If that were true, you would have taken me with you when you left.'
'You could push for a discharge. 'Cause of Yancy.'
'I don't know how to live out there, Ray. I don't have family, I'm alone and I always have been. I understand this world, I'm not going to rush out and try to be a civilian.'
'You really have come so far from when you were in the academy.' I felt him flipping through those memories.