“You are not my captain or my partner. You cannot make me.”
“Yes, I can,” Kevin said. Unspoken: you cannot refuse me.
“I hate you.”
“Sometimes you do. I don’t care.”
A soulless puppet who survived by hitching everything he was to his dream, or so Jean had believed, until the day Kevin leaned in and asked to learn French. It was the first hint he still had a personality of his own, that some part of Kevin Day existed separate from Riko Moriyama. It was proof that surviving Evermore was possible. Jean simply had to let go and stop fighting.