"Wherever you were before here," Eden answers. She has to beat back the urge to shush him, to tell him to lie back and rest. Under circumstances like these, no matter how smart it would be for him to do so, she can understand how impossible it would feel to relax. "You won't be able to go back. I'm sorry."

She doesn't know if he liked what he had or not, but she remembers his earlier plea, that she take care of Jason. Whoever that is or whatever he means to Luke, it's one thing he won't be happy to leave behind, and for that, she couldn't be sorrier. It's hard to leave a life unfinished. "There's no way out of town."