"Understable, in a way," Declan says quietly. It's been a while since he's lost anyone close, probably James and Ashley, if he's honest, and he was much closer to the former than the latter.

It never stops hurting, though, and he's not sure that if he was faced with the Cabal agent that killed Ashley he wouldn't be tempted to do the same thing Kate was almost tempted to do.

"So you...took it, then? The baseball?"