“No reason. I want to see her, so I did.”

Fabian answered matter-of-factly.

“That’s why you want to cut ties with us? It’s because you want to?”

“Uh-huh,” Fabian replied with a half-smile as he lit the cigarette. “If there’s anything else you want to ask, I can answer you now so that you two won’t keep contacting me through all sorts of channels.”

Fabian’s answer clearly showed that he had no intention whatsoever of maintaining contact with them after this.

Jeremy’s long eyebrows knitted t